The Base Vegan Retreat Animal Sanctuary

Wonderful waking up to see the rabbits and ducks playing in the garden. Really lovely property- the photos didn't do it justice

Nothing

Very comfortable room. clear instructions re where it was and how to get in etc

Corridors smelt a bit of dogs. The room didn’t though.

Really nice and warm property, special place to be in, very romantic.

Only thing I'd say could be improved during our visit was the floor could be moped a bit better as after just few steps barefoot our feet were dirty but it didn't look like the floor was dirty which is strange, but this is just a minor thing, you've got all the stuff there to clean it if you want.

Comfortable room. Quiet location. Friendly but unobtrusive owner. Various vegan breakfast options and interesting associated books available to read. Good shower. Very comfortable mattress. (Meant to ask Jaqui the make)

Liked pretty much everything. Tried fry up breakfast. Very tasty but maybe a little expensive (even accepting ingredients not cheap) - so only had once.

Nothing. I booked a few months ago for me and my family as we were wowed over by the pictures of the log cabin and the animals. We are not vegan, but we are very careful about eating meat infront of vegans and we have a lot of vegan friends. We initially thought we were booking the log cabin as these were the pictures we saw online but we were shown 2 small rooms instead. The animal sanctuary had massive rats running around and we've recorded video evidence of this.

Let me start by saying, I know this is a Vegan retreat but let's not dress it up for what it actually is, which is a dictatorship behind closed doors. I met Jaqui the manager on arriving and informed her that we've bought slices of ham, cheese and some milk for my 6 year old son for breakfast as he is a picky eater due to his autism. This went on deaf ears as the only thing she heard me say was "meat items" and proceeded to lecture me on bringing meat to her rat infested vegan sanctuary, and started sharing her thoughts on how pigs are our friends and how she cried when she saw them getting slaughtered. Ok, that's still fine as she has her own feelings and views and we have ours, let's not tread on each others toes here. I did my duty to inform her of what we have brought with us and the reasons why. We decided not to open the ham slices or the cheese or the milk out of respect for her and just kept the items in the mini fridge just so that they don't go bad as we were booked to stay for two nights. The following day whilst we were out, I got a text from Jaqui to inform me of how "shocked" she was to find meat and dairy items in the fridge in our room even though i'd told her already. She said she was there to do room service, but in reality she was only there to spy on what we put in the fridge. It was empty on arrival so there was no need to get restocked. She removed my autistic sons food and left it in a bag by the door to rot! This is a violation of our privacy and disgusting behaviour. This is not a dictatorship! I asked her to kindly put the bagged food inside the fridge so it doesn't spoil and she refused. She insisted that I write her a review as she felt she had done nothing wrong. Please tell me what is right about touching peoples private belongings and removing them when you could've just wrote us a note to tell us to get rid of it?