Location and decor

The Old Bookshop is an amazing little house right in the centre of St Ives. It's quirky, but immaculately presented. Obviously it has its share of interesting bookshelves, but also a fully fitted kitchen, lovely bedroom and bathroom, and also a gas barbecue in the garden area.

There's nothing that I didn't like, except having to leave this morning!

Superb

The outside space was wonderful to have, the groceries and the wine were a lovely touch. More effort could be made with the book theme but it was okay. The outside of the property was beautiful and the location was central.

The communication prior and during my stay was absolutely terrible, transactional and even argumentative as a solo female traveler. The host said they would get back to me, they didn’t bother two and a half days later. The bed had no duvet, just a bedspread, it was cold one night the bed had also clearly not been changed and was febreezed to the point of eye watering (genuinely) levels. The lights were hard to work out, the locking system not user friendly, the welcome email arrived at 10pm and the cleaners came a day early. The property details of how to get in were sent at 9pm the night before my travel and there was no explanation about how the door worked (it’s time locked people) the back door was like Fort Knox making it look and feel unsafe. Other people who have stayed there have fed back about instructions for things and it’s been ignored. You have to shut the shutters as people passing gawp in and also think it’s a shop so it’s not very quiet. The decor of the lounge was very whetherspoons pub and it was dark inside.