2/10 Terrible
joanna s.
7 Jan 2023
Liked: Check-in, communication
Disliked: Cleanliness, location, listing accuracy
Nice location, poorly maintaned
This property turned to be rather a letdown. The upside was the fact that it has an amazing deck, luscious garden and very nice little rocky beach. The surroundings are pleasant and the place would have a lot of potential if it were maintained properly. We did expect it to be a basic, no frills accommodation, but we’re were not prepared for how run down and unkempt the place turned out to be. We were lucky enough to find alternative accommodation, informed the house caretaker and moved out as soon as we were able on the 3rd morning. Doors and windows are old and no longer close properly: letting both bugs and humidity in. Our clothes became damp hanging in the closet with hours. The mold is apparent in both the bathrooms and the kitchen cupboards. Very little effort is spent to maintain the place. For example, the ceiling fans are rusting with rust falling from them while in use. Half of the wall sockets don’t function. Only 1/3 of the bulbs were in their fixtures and working, old ones never replaced - basically of the 6 bulbs in the ceiling lights only two worked. There was only one small bulb in the kitchen area, making it hard too see anything. The kitchen drawers were filled with a jumble of old utensils making it hard to find what’s needed to prepare a meal. Kitchen appliances were old and poorly maintained. The fridge was rusted and the door seal so broken that it did not close properly any more. To keep things cold the fridge settings had been set so low that our food froze on the top shelves and dripping condensation created pools of water on items. The kitchen cabinets were full of old crockery, and the shelves were covered with sticky dust and crumbs. In the bedroom, the floor under the beds was dirty and we had to wash the shelves to lay out our clothes. On a positive note the laundry room had well working appliances and probably thanks to the drier was the least humid and most pleasant room despite being tiny and having no windows (so not really possible to spend any time in). In the master bedroom there is a floor trap door that leads to the water cistern directly below. This smelled of damp and the noise of draining water made it difficult to sleep in. The septic tank in the garden below was overflowing and the smell was overwhelming. To make matters worse a new house was being built on the property just next to us with all the noise that one would expect.
joanna s.
Stayed 8 nights in Dec 2022