News Sea View Cottage, Isle of Portland
Children’s Author Stays
Acclaimed Children’s author Donna Vann stayed at Sea View Cottage for a few days self catering UK in September 2020. Maybe she was doing research for an upcoming book? Portland could certainly have inspired her – shipwrecks, war, quarrying, old railways, spies – it’s had the lot over the years and children love learning […]
‘Dead Doubles’
Holiday accommodation UK libraries don’t usually hold books like this. ‘Dead Doubles‘ is a book written by historian and author Trevor Barnes. It’s the true story of MI5’s hunt for the Portland Spy Ring and is now in the Sea View Cottage library. A story straight from the world of John le Carre no less. Trevor Barnes […]
Post Lockdown
Like all UK beachfront cottages, Sea View Cottage was closed for business during lockdown. But we were up and running again, albeit a bit later than most, from 27th July 2020. During lockdown, to comply with new UK Government Regulations we completely rethought our approach to cleaning. We’ve also taken various steps to minimise the […]
Cracking First Year
Sea View Cottage exceeded all our expectations in 2019. Although not open until mid-April, our cottage on the coast hosted nearly 40 visiting families from the United Kingdom, Europe, and the Caribbean. We received 35 online reviews with Airbnb (all of them good and some of them excellent). Also, a similar number of good/great reviews […]
Superhost Award
Sea View Cottage, was awarded Airbnb’s ‘Superhost’ status on 9th July 2019. We had shown we were responsive, reliable and hospitable. Our cheap holiday cottage had only commenced hosting guests 3 months earlier. We were off to a flying start! We resolved to compete for similar awards on other sales platforms. Due to the effect […]