Birkenhaus, Aboyne

Thanks Michele; we’re glad you enjoyed your stay and hope you got some good fishing!

Thank you so much for this review, Steven. We appreciate it, and are really glad you enjoyed Deeside so much!

Thank you for your review Brian! We’re so glad you enjoyed your stay, and appreciate all your positive comments 🙂

Thank you for your review, we’re glad you enjoyed a peaceful Christmas in the cottage.

Thank you very much for this review Peter… it’s such a great description of the cottage; we couldn’t have put it better ourselves! Re the hot water - future plans include an updated (larger) boiler…

Thank you so much for your review, Christoph, which we somehow managed to miss at the time! We're glad the cottage lay-out (& style) worked so well for you, and enjoyed the comments about its aura and your tips on tackling the stairs!

Thank you for your feedback, Anne. We're very glad that you enjoyed your stay overall. On your specific points: We do leave out tea and coffee etc, and the housekeeper has confirmed that they were there (plus some extras she'd supplied), but perhaps they weren't in an obvious place; bin bags and other spares are in the cupboard under the kitchen sink so I'm afraid you must have missed those. We generally work hard to keep all the info up to date, but I hope you'll appreciate this has been an unusual year and our hard-working housekeeper has only a limited number of hours to clean up between each set of guests and has rightly concentrated on making the cottage Covid-safe. But we're very sorry if you noticed a few areas that had been overlooked this year. We do have gardeners who come in regularly to tidy up and keep weeds at bay. The garden immediately in front of the house is the more planted one, but the area on the other side of the lane, leading to scrub/woods, we've always kept as semi-wild. Perhaps we should make that clearer on the website! With best wishes, Vicky & Adrian

Thank you so much for this lovely review; it captures what we hope is a bit special about the place. And we’re glad you appreciated the local info we provide; we like sharing with guests the things that we enjoy doing in the area! Best wishes, Vicky and Adrian

Thank you so much for this, and we’re glad you had such a good stay! Best wishes, Vicky and Adrian

Thanks very much for this, Rachel. We really appreciate people taking the trouble to write us a review. Best wishes, Vicky and Adrian

Thank you so much for this! We’re really glad you enjoyed your stay, and would love to welcome you back. Best wishes, Vicky and Adrian

Thanks Sam! It’s a late response, but we really appreciate hearing that people have had a good stay. Best wishes, Vicky and Adrian

Thanks for this lovely review; we really do appreciate people taking the time to write one, and we’re always glad people have enjoyed their stay. Best wishes, Vicky and Adrian

Thank you! We are so glad you enjoyed staying in the cottage. Best wishes, Vicky and Adrian.

I hope we replied in person to this lovely review, because we really did appreciate it! Thank you for writing such a great description, and we hope to welcome you back some time. Best wishes, Vicky and Adrian

Thank you Christophe! We look forward to your return visit…