Bliss Cottage formerly Inn Bliss

Wonderful Airbnb with private room, friendly hosts, very comfortable!

What a lovely time we had.

The house was amazing

I stayed at Inn Bliss for a wedding with some friends over the week of July 4th and I have to say that while we enjoyed the town of Newport, we felt mislead about the house overall. It was NOT made clear in advance that the "living areas" are actually just small rooms off of the main rooms that do not have doors (by the way, there is no door to the upstairs bathroom either so I hope you are comfortable with your co-renters!) It was disappointing that this was not made clear, as we were travelling with numerous couples who would have liked to have some privacy. There was trash from the previous tenant before we arrived. Call me crazy but when a guest is paying good money to rent a home, I feel it is the owner's responsibility to get rid of the previous tenant's trash, ESPECIALLY if it is a holiday week and the trash pickup was cancelled!

We were told that the house had a hot tub which was one of the appealing factors to our group. The hot tub indeed did not work. The owner's excuse was that it was "beach weather" so who needs a hot tub anyway. Yeah that is totally irrelevant to me. if you advertise something as appealing as a hot tub, we should have been informed it wasn't working. And for the record, a hot tub would have been wonderful at night, when we were not at the beach. But I digress.

The owner accused us of breaking some mirror, which we did not do, and which he admitted could have been done by the previous tenants.
The owners also complained that we "used the wrong dishware and left them in the wrong places"- apparently certain plates were not to be used? Um, you run a bed and breakfast where people stay and cook for themselves- if you don't want people to use something I suggest not leaving it in the house where we are living for a week!

Finally, be warned that you are not given extra towels so I recommend bringing your own. We stayed for almost a week and when we asked the owners if we could get fresh towels he snidely directed us to a laundromat. Is it too much to ask to request an extra couple of towels? Are you expected to do your own laundry at a hotel?

I have never once stayed at a place that asked me to scrub down the counters, sweep the floor, strip the beds, run the dishwasher, etc. Um then why did we pay a $300 cleaning fee? We certainly cleaned up as best as we could but frankly with the money we spent on this place we shouldn't have had to do the housekeeper's job. While we loved the town of Newport, we did not appreciate how the owners treated us. We are a nice, respectful group of people and I guess I was just surprised that this was less of a hotel or B&B experience and more of a do-it-yourself type place. We were in town for a good friend's wedding and were busy with wedding festivities all week, the last thing we wanted to worry about was cleaning and doing laundry on our vacation!