We were there for 4 nights with our son who is nearly 2. It was a nice stay even the weather was let us down a little bit. But the apartment itself is absolutely great.
There are a lot books and DVDs available, even we didn’t get chance to read/watch any. We just stick with all the Virgin TV programs.
If you use the back door, you can get to the car straight away. Especially when you got pushchair, you are able to avoid all the stairs.
Both bathrooms are nice and clean, the shower pressure is great. One thing need to be careful, is the tower rail. Make sure you turn it down a little bit to keep your little safe. It could be quite hot!
The normal check out time is 10 am, since we got young kid, we request to extend couple of hours later, and the owner of the apartment was so nice and allowed us to check out at 4pm.
We had really nice stay and hope we could back to there in summer, rather than miserable September.

We stayed in this lovely old building with our two children (aged 11 and 7) for our summer holiday. We always stay at a different location along the Dorset coast every year and this is probably the cleanest and most well equipped accomodation ever. The owners have provided an incredibly well equipped kitchen, books, DVDs, games to play and TiVo for when you just want to be lazy! Would recommend for a great location - only a 5 mins to boscombe beach and pier, and maybe 25 mins walk (or even quicker by land train) to busy Bournemouth. This is a beautiful county and a Boscombe Reef Retreat is great base to explore it from.

Our whole experience with Boscome Reef Retreat was exceptional.Management friendly and helpful about getting in to the property early after a long flight. Access via back door very good for all the luggage we had. Flat comfortable. Area close to beach, shopping and many good restaurants.We would stay there again in a heartbeat!