Poor? Doesn't even cut it
How was my stay poor? Let me count the ways…
I booked via the website directly back in March - twin room for me and my mum - only to turn up on the night of the booking to find they had given us a double room and when we asked for the twin we booked we were told they didn’t have any… ! Once we argued they put us in what I’m assuming is a room no one stays in, right at the top and in the worst condition of any room I’ve ever seen!! We didn’t expect much for budget but this was very close to uninhabitable…
They did offer us an “apartment” that the manager said he would take us to for £20 extra, but as two women we didn’t feel comfortable being taken to somewhere else than what we had booked and agreed with! It had two beds at least, and they were semi-comfortable, however we were not given duvets but instead slept under sheets and comforters like we were evacuees!! The ‘en-suite’ was a cupboard, and a mouldy one at that, with a rusty toilet paper holder and a rusty towel ring (with no towel despite being told the fella would bring one up!!). Furthermore, the door to our room didn’t lock and we felt very uncomfortable with this as the two gentlemen of the staff gave us strange vibes - probably overthinking but we slept with the suitcase against the door in case.
It was nice that they supplied a hairdryer but it was hanging off the wall, the mirror was cracked and the surfaces were so sticky we wanted to cover everything in sanitiser! There was just one plug socket accessible too, and it had the prong of someone’s long lost charger still stuck in it - massive fire hazard! It looked like it hadn’t been dusted in years, though at least the sheets seemed clean and we managed to somewhat sleep. No thermostat and being at the top of the building it was boiling… the toilet was new, but the old was in the middle of the landing.
Needless to say, we left at 6.30am. Just wanted to get out.
I don’t know what I expected for £50, but I do know I can stay in a much better BnB up north for that price!!!
6 May 2022
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