carlyjpoll
August 2022
We were unlucky enough to stay here while attending a family wedding at a venue close by. My mother booked it for 16 of us, 8 adults and 8 children at a cost of £1600 for 2 nights. For this we were expecting a clean place to stay and enjoy together. Let me begin by explaining just how dirty the house was, if it was a pub I would not order food there. There was fly tape in the kitchen that had been there for a long time literally covered in flies and the kitchen was filled with them. The worktops were sticky and dirty as were the floors and literally everything else. We had to scrub the kitchen before we could even make a cup of tea, the kettle was also full of flies. Now I expect some flies given the location but this was next level and was massively reduced once we cleaned. There were stains on the sheets and the crockery and cutlery had to be washed and bleached and then put through the dishwater. Now I will get onto the highlight! When we went to bath the baby the water came out of the tap yellow with black bits, the water in the kitchen was also yellow. When an owner came by I raised these issues and he did not seem bothered, merely said he wasn’t aware and that we were going home in less than two days. So, we were meant to go to the wedding unwashed? We went to the local shops and bought bottled water for our needs (we were not reimbursed) If you go with children, the area outside is not theirs for play, the owner told the children to keep to their part (very small area) . While outside there was a manhole not covered correctly that one of the children almost had a severe accident with. An adult was alongside him and swiftly grabbed him avoiding a very serious accident. The owners responded and a couple of weeks later reimbursed us £300 and compared prices to local hostels and hotels. Considering we didn’t even have drinking water this is an insult really and not a fair comparison. If we could have got into one of these though we would have but they were full. Staying here was awful.