Property: 5 |
Cleaning: 8 |
Host: 1 |
Location: 6 |
Price/Quality: 6
| Breakfast: 1
I don't usually leave negative reviews. But this is an exception as it was the most uncomfortable, emotionally and physically, stay I've ever had. In short, I do not recommend. For a long, boring tirade read on... I think this once may have been a very charming place to stay, hence the stellar reviews. But I think host has completely given up. Communication was poor. We were not told there was major construction going on street outside so that taxi could not take us down, at night, on our arrival. We were never told we would have to get buzzed through a poorly marked gate. We had to buzz twice (again at night). Once in the gate we were greeted with a long dark driveway/ portico. Finally, ahead in the darkness, we see a man, our host? We approach him, and yes, he's our host or her husband? He speaks no English, which is fine, but challenging as he tries to explain how we are to operate the 3 gates and 4 keys he's giving us. We then have to haul our luggage up 3 flights of stairs (this would have been nice to have communicated in the listing) to a large, but very tired, overly decorated room (you couldn't even open the bathroom door without hitting the oversized dresser). It WAS clean, except the grimy door jams. The only toiletries provided was a small bottle of shampoo. The bed was hard. The pillows harder. The bath towels large, but very thin and scratchy (my husband actually liked them). The lovely balcony, which sold me on this inn, was overgrown and the chairs had no cushions, rendering it useless. The kitchen room had a fridge stocked with juice, water, and yogurt (nice). Coffee supplies were provided. And some very dry looking cereal and prepackaged, unappealing pasteries. We knew instantly we would be having breakfast at a cafe in town. I was never shown the charming patio in the photos, we never saw the man/host again. The real host never did introduce herself to us, check in on us, ask if we needed anything... and they call this is a bed & breakfast? We ultimately left a day earlier than planned. We were still charged for the full time, which was a expected. But in previous messages I asked they not use the credit card on file to avoid foreign transactions fees. Since they did not know how to change it online, said it would be taken care of when we checked out. When I messaged them (because we couldn't seem to catch them at home) that we were leaving early they almost instantly charged my card on file.
stayed from 05/12/2025 to 05/16/2025