4/10 Poor
Alan D., Fleet, Hampshire
2 Sept 2024
Disliked: Cleanliness
Tired and dirty. Such a pity. It could be a wonderful house with a bit of care and attention.
The first impression was that the outside of the house was festooned with cobwebs with very dirty windows, not cleaned for years probably. Not good! Inside we found plaster wrappers on the bathroom floor, hair balls in a bedroom & a broken toilet seat downstairs. Bedroom carpets & the large stool downstairs dirty & stained. Later when it rained the conservatory flooded through the side doors. The conservatory doors drainage channels were full of dirt & blocked, causing the flood. Lots of mould & dirt inside the conservatory & shower seals & runners. On day one we fixed the toilet seat and the flooding ourselves. Not what we expected to be doing on our first day! The main bedroom door is hanging on a hinge which a botched repair had not fixed & could hardly be closed. The door handle is hanging off. Most doors were grubby with long grained-in dirt. We found most of these problems were written up in the guest book at the house going back years, yet nothing had been done. I can provide photos of all of the above.
There were no black bags for rubbish & no recycling bags for glass, plastic etc despite there being recycling bins outside. The advice in the house is to put everything in black bags in a bin!! No way for us to recycle despite the local authority collecting whilst we were there!
Having said all this we really enjoyed our week on the Gower coast visiting various lovely beaches & the house is in a good location. This was despite the terrible maintenance and cleanliness!
Alan D.
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2024