Scottish Borders holiday house: Berwickshire

Stayed at this property with a group of friends recently and had a brilliant time!

In particular we loved the sociable middle floor with kitchen/ dining/ living space and balcony. The house has excellent facilities as described in the advert, the whole place was pristine clean, and Jan and Donald were great to deal with. Easy to get in touch with and very welcoming on arrival providing lots of info to get us started.

The house is close to the lovely beaches on the east coast and we visited 4 different ones during our stay. We tended to stay in for meals in the evening so the stunning kitchen and the BBQ were appreciated and enjoyed.

Big thanks and hope to be back!

Got back from our 4 night stay on Sunday and miss it already. Once you see this place you will not want to leave. The spacious rooms enable lots of people to be under the same roof without getting on top of each other. The layout of the kitchen, dining and sitting area was perfect for our large group. Plus, the weather was good enough to use the outdoor barbeque area and balcony. Thank you Donald and Jan - we had a ball!

We were first to arrive our friends following on a little later. Donald was there to greet us and show us around the house; we were truly delighted as the photographs and description do not do this place justice.

The rooms are large, beautifully decorated and spotlessly clean. The bathrooms were modern with wonderful little touches like music at the touch of a button and shower heads the size of dinner plates! We were delighted when we saw the living and kitchen area; the windows and balcony looking out onto a beautiful view was the first thing we noticed; then we saw the sitting room, with three sofas, great tv and lovely decor and the gorgeous (really gorgeous) kitchen with the best of facilities.

Up the next set of stairs...pausing to admire the garden on the way; two wonderful decked seating areas, BBQ, lovely plants, an amazing marble table and chairs which looked more like an art installation than actual seating...the kids loved it. Upstairs was the other three bedrooms, all lovely (the boys room, as we called it, slept 5 easily) with a gorgeous family bathroom with loads of windows to let in the light.

When our friends arrived, they were truly delighted and I got lots of thanks for booking it. We felt really relaxed by the end of our few days there as this is a house to enjoy, to chill in and the kids had so much space, we hardly saw them in the evening as they piled into a room to play or build a den or watch a dvd on one of many flat screen tvs/dvd/Sky (in every bedroom).

Sitting on the balcony with a gin and tonic or coffee, looking at the hills and fields below, the ponies trotting by, the smell of lavender from the two huge pots on the decking, we were very happy indeed.

The nearby beaches at Bellhaven and Coldingham Bay were a must.

The kids were sad to leave though and we promised them another trip soon.