I had explained to Deirdre that we were celebrating my friends engagement and we were to be about 15 people to celebrate and 7 people could stay in the house. Initially we wanted 4 people to stay in the house but she advised us that it would be best if we book for 7 people and the 7 could stay in which I rebooked it. Deirdre was so nice over text as she even offered to help us cook and set up. I told Deirdre that it was a South African themed dinner and we’d be ok. Coming to the house, we had met with Kieran who showed us the house. I was originally told that it was self check in with a code and that the hosts would call me or either text me about the house and anything I needed to know on the day but I received a text message from Deirdre that Kieran, her husband was going to meet us. When I met Kieran, he had spoken to most of the guests that were there and he also gave the other guests a lift to the house. He was actually really lovely and such a joy to talk to. He explained to us that we can make as much noise as we want as one of the neighbours was deaf and the other had passed away recently. He told us that we could be free so long as there was no damage in the house. Something that caught me off guard when Kieran was giving a tour of the house was when he showed us that he lived in the house. One of the bedrooms was connected to his own personal sitting room and he said they had they’re own room as well. The way he had explained it was that his son who moved out lived in the garage in which they turned it into their mini house. This was never mentioned in the description of the house but I didn’t think it would be a problem as he was only there to give a tour of the house. However, throughout the night he would come in, unannounced, and have conversations with the guests and leave.
Around midnight, an unexpected amount of guests came and I asked them to leave and when they didn’t I called Kieran to help us get rid of them. When we had finally got them to leave, all the remaining guests were talking to him, we offered him some of the South African traditional food and he was telling us how one of the unexpected guests had got aggressive by his tone. I immediately apologised to him and told him we’re not like that. Kieran said he knew people like the guy as he was from London and by the way he was speaking, he was in a way insinuating that most black people are aggressive and when he noticed we were getting offended he said he had 3 black friends growing up which didn’t help his case at all. We brushed it off and continued speaking as normal and Kieran actually said he didn’t mind all of of the guests staying in the house and we could carry on. The guests weren’t leaving and kept coming in the house and Kieran walked in and told everyone to get out including the guests he said were ok to stay over. I went outside and saw Deirdre. She said they were waiting on the guards to come and it was unbelievable as there was no reason for the guards to come. When they came Deirdre had told them that there were over 50 people in the house and that there was major damage to the house. She was lying as the guards had counted and they counted 23 people all together and the closest thing to damage was an ice spill on the floor. Ontop of that Kieran told the guards that he never agreed to 15 people staying for the night and only agreed to 4 people. Deirdre continued to call us savages and insult our traditional food we offered the family. They said we should all leave and were compliant and we were packing up our stuff to leave. I was politely telling one of the guards that they’re lying and that we had nowhere to go. The thing that got us like this is the unexpected guests but I have spoken to Kieran about it yet he denied everything. There were no taxi services to Limerick city and the next bus was for 5 in the morning. We told them that we were stranded and we wanted our money back. Deirdre said she was gonna drive to the bank to give us the money but Kieran said no. All the hotels were full.