Name: Dairyman's Cottage
Address: 346 Tweedies Gully Road, 5351 Lyndoch, Australia, Somerset, Somerset, Somerset, 5351, Australia
Rating: 9

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Adelaide Airport

Dairyman's Cottage

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Looks nothing like the picture on the website and booking sites advertised, totally run down, messy and very derelict. What a disappointment and not a pleasant stay as far out of town. Service was terrible and not welcoming. Whould not recommend this as a place to stay.

Huge disappointment

Farm stay and great base for the Barossa! Was here for a long weekend, girls’ weekend checking out the wineries in and around the Barossa. Just wonderful!
Also, the breakfast supplies - so fresh, farm to table. Michael is such a wonderful host

Great base for the Barossa

Wonderful hospitality and an amazing stay at Dairyman Cottage. We were so comfortable, enjoyed all the animals especially the turkeys.! The food and wine that was provided was exceptional. Thank you Michael. We will return and so will our family.

Friendly, comfortable and delicious!

My partner and I stayed at the Chaff House for the long weekend and absolutely loved it. The location was very convenient and the accomodation was clean, well-maintained, and had all the amenities we needed. The food and produce included with our stay was delicious, and we loved touring the farm and seeing the animals. I would definitely recommend staying here, thanks again Michael!

Lovely stay, great experience

We stayed 3 nights in Chaff House which is the smaller of the 2 accomodation options.Great location on a working farm albeit a way off the main road..Very close to Lyndoch.The room was a bit quirky but very well fitted out and comfortable.We received excellent breakfast provisions of bacon,eggs,sausages,bread,fruit,butter,wine etc.Very easy to cook your own meals.We really liked looking around the farm seeing the cows being milked etc.Excellent host in Michael.Reasonably priced.

Excellent Farm Side Accomodation

Michael is a wonderful, warm and welcoming host whose farm and accommodation are first class,  creating a space that you will remember being part of, rather than merely occupying rooms. 
Everything integrates: the cottage is everything and more that you could expect or require,  his produce (fresh, tasty and delectable) is amazing, and peace and serenity complement  your reasons for coming here. 
It is close enough to all you need, yet necessarily far enough to appreciate it's unique ambience.
Loved every second of being here. Thank you Michael.

More fabulous than words can express 

We stayed in the one bedroom studio. Many of the positive reviews are about the two bedroom cottage. Michael was a pleasant guy and we enjoyed learning about his farm, but the one bedroom accomodation was not up to scratch. The wall paint peeled everywhere and as there is nowhere to hang clothes, they ended up being filthy. The shower drenches half the bathroom, the door between the bathroom and main room does not close and there is a large gap at the top - not good. The floors were dirty. The external door jammed and was difficult to lock. Some lighting did not work. The room is not cleaned and we had to ask for towels after using them to mop up the soaking floor after showers. We thought the place really needed someone with the time to look after it properly.

It needs TLC

We stayed in the Dairyman's cottage which was a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom self contained cottage. All the mod cons required. Michael the host was very welcoming and hospitable. Fridge stocked with produce from the farm and the highlight was feeding the pigs each day !
Great farm stay experience that we will visit again.

Great experience in a beautiful part of the Barossa

From the moment we arrived to the time we left Michael was so  accomodating 
We arrived -6 of us after a fun day wine tasting to beautifully warmed cottages stocked with the freshest  local produce Michael had purchased for us to cook an amazing roast and veggies.    We made our morning coffee with milk straight from the jersey cows and the freshest eggs from the free range chickens   Not to mention the yummy bacon  sausages and fresh bread.    We enjoyed 4 days touring the Barossa and Clare but if we didn’t choose to stay at the Dairymans cottages we wouldn’t have had such an amazing time.  Thank you again Michael for your hospitality and the fab dinner we enjoyed with you and Phillip on our last night       Thanks for a little insight   into your country life it’s  something we won’t forget and hope to return   🐂🐂🐂🐂

Made our trip to the Barossa

Dairy Man's Cottages have some great reviews on here - and that is why we booked. But be aware that there are two "cottages" - one which looked perfectly nice when we were there (from the outside at least) and which we think must be the reason for the good reviews and the other, smaller one which we stayed in... which was a nightmare from start to finish. 

It comprised a small studio (not a "cottage" as advertised and shown in photos) with incomplete roof (ie. the slanted part was an old conservatory roof with windows that do not shut and no blinds) and no proper ceiling between bathroom and living space, no real flooring so you don't want to walk barefoot, a very temperamental air conditioning unit which only managed to heat the room during our stay rather than cool, a huge number of squashed insects on the unfinished stone wall inside by the bed, no wardrobe or hanging space, and a small and dirty bbq area which looked like it hadn't been cleaned that season - indeed the whole studio is very rough and ready. To add to this, when we arrived late at night, the room was infested with bugs and mosquitos - it was so bad that my wife ended up being bitten on her face 3 times. I realise bugs and mosquitos can't be avoided in Australia, but had the room been properly sealed and with a working air con this would have been made a lot better.

When we sought help at about 6.30am in the morning, after a night of no sleep, there was noone there to assist. We stayed 1 night and chose not to stay for the remaining 3 nights that we had booked and paid for. This was a really tough decision as it's not cheap - all in all we have lost about £670 (GBP) / $1200 AUD. We are in the process of trying to get a refund from Michael, the owner, for our terrible experience. After saying he would refund us one night's stay he then, completely out of the blue, changed his mind about this and instead refused to return any of our money to us at all - we are now in the process of taking it up with booking.com. The reason Michael said he would not return our money, even having already agreed to refund one night, is because we mentioned that we had been sent the review reminder e-mail by booking.com (the website we booked with) and there was limited time for us to write our review (we had been trying to resolve this with him over e-mail for weeks). None of this makes any sense to us and we are really left at a loss as to what to do. 

All in all, please make sure you avoid this property. It ruined the few days that we had in Barossa Valley and it has been stressful ever since trying to recoup even some of the money we have lost. 

ps. We checked in at a nearby chain resort hotel after this, and it is actually cheaper than Michael's accommodation - yet you get a 24 hour service, working air conditioning, bigger room and kitchen area, and most important of all, proper sealed roof and floors and no mosquitos.

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