Been to Helms House before had a wonderful stay it suites all our needs as a family thank you.Hope to be back from the Budd family

Lovely house, nice location. Plenty of space for 7 of us and a baby. Only bad points were the high chair was unclean and unusable and the travel cot was broken. Ended up buying both on the day we arrived.

We have stayed in many holiday lets over the years. The owners have thought of everything we couldn’t find anything that we didn’t want. It’s advertised for 2 cars can park you can only get one medium size car on the drive but the park with parking is only a short walk away. The house is extremely clean. The location isnt the centre of the Isle of Wight which we knew before coming this didn’t bother us as we had a vehicle but there is a bus stop just across the road. The house didn’t come with a welcome pack to get you started but they a village shop approximately 3 minute walk away. We will definitely be back.

The location in St Helens was convenient for travelling by car to many of the visitor attractions and to/from the ferry terminal at Fishbourne. However, Helms House is on a surprisingly busy road which made the parking space quite difficult to enter and leave, especially squeezing in 2 cars. There was a lot of traffic noise late at night and in the early morning (a noisy motorbike regularly roared past at about 5.45 am!) - this was accentuated because the windows needed to be open due to the hot weather. The fan that was provided in the house unfortunately did not work. The holiday house was reasonably priced and was fairly clean and well equipped, so despite the location problems I still felt it was value for money. My biggest disappointment was that I'd asked for a highchair and stairgate to be provided. The house notes said the highchair was stored in a bedroom - it wasn't, and we only found it towards the end of the week lurking in the garage, folded under a dirty cover. I do feel it should have been set up and thoroughly cleaned before we arrived. I'd also specifically requested Island Holiday Homes to ask the cleaners to assemble the stairgate. When we arrived with our lively 2-year-old, we were immediately faced with assembling it ourselves - not the best welcome. For these reasons I would not recommend the property to another family with a young child.