I guess after 500 good reviews, I was bound to get a bad one…
I don’t usually write reviews because my baby girl takes ALL my time, but I just got my first bad review as a guest (ever), me, who always tries to be the best guest wherever I am, so naturally I had to defend myself against my accuser:
Me, my husband and our baby girl, rented Sarah’s apartment for an expensive week.
It’s located in a terrific part of Melbourne, 15 minutes walk from a fabulous beach, an atmospheric tram to the center in front of the building, and a quiet neighborhood (although the neighbor below us either operates a chainsaw in the middle of the night, or should do something about his snoring)
Because our flight got delayed, we arrived dead tired in the middle of the night.
It was hard bringing all our luggage to the third floor without an elevator, but we were warned about this when we booked, as well as the broken kitchen fan, and not to use the living room heater but the air conditioner instead.
Welcoming our eyes was a nice small apartment. Sarah even left us her daughter’s baby toys, which was above and beyond and well appreciated!
Welcoming our ears was a constant dripping from the leaky faucet in the bathroom. The leak proved unstoppable, but when we closed the bathroom door we didn’t hear it as much.
First we wanted to close the shutters in the living room, and the shutters fell down -on our baby’s head!
One might expect the shutters to stay connected to the wall in a 1500$ a week apartment…
Then we wanted to move the bed to the wall, something we do in every apartment, as our baby sleeps with us, and we didn’t want her to fall from the bed (she got banged enough from the shutters)
As we moved the bed, the legs of the bed fell off!
One might expect the legs of the bed to stay connected, in a thousand five hundred dollars a week apartment…
In order not to sleep on the floor, we found in the street (in the middle of the night) bricks, with which we supported the dislocated legs, and from then on, the bed was great!
We wrote Sarah about this, and she wrote back that that’s fine with her.
Now, 2 days after we left, suddenly Sarah claims we broke her bed, and wants us to pay for a new bed!?!
Too bad… and we thought she would actually thank us for fixing her bed…
After so many bookings, I was due a bad one!
P.s.: Be careful of the extremely hot water from the taps… we got burned trying to wash our hands!!!