While you’re staying at Serenity 22 Barend, we would very much appreciate you separating your waste into the 3 bins and 1 box outside the lodge so that it can be recycled.
How to Recycle in Dumfries & Galloway
Articles About the Lodge
Help Us to Look After Barend Loch
Serenity has a great view of Barend Loch, so we really appreciate all efforts made to keep the Loch healthy and looking good!
You can walk all around the loch and might be fortunate to spot Heron, Swans, Dragonflies and other wildlife 🙂 There are fish in the loch and guests at Serenity don’t need a permit to fish there.
The lodges at Barend use a treatment plant over the road for waste water. The plant uses Barend Loch as a final stage of water purification before discharging via a stream into the sea. There’s no smell and the outflow from the loch is regularly tested showing a very high standard of purity.
Here are three ways you can help us to look after Barend Loch:
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Green Energy / Renewable Electricity
We love nature and we’re conscious of our impact on the environment. Because of this we signed up to an electricity supplier that uses 100% renewable electricity.
Read moreHeating
There’s a Worcester Bosch gas boiler located just inside the downstairs twin bedroom to the right of the door, which provides hot water on demand and heating on schedule. The temperature is controlled with a thermostat on the wall next to the kitchen in the dining area.
The maintenance team from Barend Holiday Lodges look after the heating temperatures and schedules. If you think it needs adjusting, please get in touch with reception so that they can make the change for you, and so that they know what has been done.
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Kitchen
The lodge has:
- an electric ceramic hob
- electric oven
- fridge with ice compartment
- dishwasher
- microwave
- toaster
- kettle
- cafetiere
- A full range of cooking utensils, crockery, glassware and cutlery.
A separate fridge/freezer is also in the hallway cupboard for your convenience.
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Internet & WiFi
Last Speedtest April 2026, screenshot below.
Internet
We’ve had superfast full fibre Internet installed at the lodge.
The speed of the Internet and WiFi is: 100Mbps, “Perfect for box-sets & streaming”.
Here’s a screenshot of a speedtest:
WiFi
The WiFi network and password are on the welcome note left in the lodge. You should also be able to scan the QR code on there to join automatically. The WiFi details are also on the back of the router.
Mobile Signal
With EE we get 4G signal everywhere in the lodge. The speed of data varies greatly depending on where you are in the lodge and time of day. Speed has ranged (download/upload) from 2.39Mbps / 1.08Mbps – pretty slow 😩 – to 18.4 Mbps / 2.02 Mbps – OK.