Nature with style
Review Submitted: September 5, 2009
Date of Stay: August 2009
Very easy contact with AJ , the owner, who was extremely forthcoming and agreed to rent the cottage for only 3 days - which was exactly the period of time we needed (most owners or agencies rent for a minimum of 7 days). The house commands beautiful views from all rooms, onto the arm of a bay which is sometimes - especially at the end of August/beginning of September covered by a light mist. You can sit on a comfortable deck with a cup of coffee and watch the mist dissolve, the day begin... The interior is state of the art on the one hand (you even have internet access, which was a big help because I didn´t get a signal for my cell phone in this area); on the other hand it has a real `country feeling´ - very comfortable, going back to the early 1800s. There is a shopping centre nearby (Porters Lake, 3km) which gives you all you need (Atlantic SuperStore), gas, ATM. There are some mosquitoes in the evening from the lake but not too many, and you can prepare for that. Unfortunately we couldn´t find a nice restaurant in the area - but we had just 3 days to look for one, so maybe there is one - but there is a great pizza place in Porters Lake near the post office in case you don´t want to cook yourself. This lack of restaurants is more than balanced by the fact that Darthmouth/Halifax are very close (an easy 30 km on 107 and 7 to Dartmouth where you can take the MetroTransit ferry to the Halifax waterfront - and finding nice places there is of course no problem at all - besides, a ferry ride is a nice experience at any time of the day. So you can even explore the city from this house easily, and some places on the Southern Shore are also not too far away. A thoroughly beautiful experience - and: the house is larger in reality than it looks in the photograph.
Recommended for:
Age 55+,
Pet-friendly,
Girls Getaway,
Sightseeing,
Families with Young Children,
Romantic Getaway
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