I don’t even know where to start.
I messaged the vendor openly before I arrived to ask if the Wi-Fi was strong because I’m running two businesses and it’s important to me that I receive a strong signal in order to run my businesses. I made that clear before I arrived. They assured me the Wi-Fi was fine and ‘complimentary’ (it should be anyway).
When we arrived there was no discernible Wi-Fi router in the building so please be aware they don’t actually have Wi-Fi in the building AT ALL and I had to ask the owner to get his own Wi-Fi router from his home and bring it into the property as there was zero signal and I could not hook up my devices the only way I could even get it to connect to the weak Wi-Fi that he was trying to tether from his property across the courtyard, was to go in the courtyard to try and get it, so if you stay here you need to get them to put the router into the property as they are purporting to have Wi-Fi but they are just relying on a signal from the main house across a courtyard which is ludicrous! so although it says Wi-Fi it doesn’t actually have any discernible Wi-Fi router unless you ask for it. Yes he fixed it but I had to protest and get it fixed remember they don’t have any unless you ask. Maybe they will remedy this in the future.
Next, and the worst part of all the building is bitterly and I mean BITTERLY cold do not think that the ‘feature fireplace’ that they show for guests as being a pretty item will heat the house as it doesn’t even touch the house, it just makes it smell of billowing smoke.
They leave you some wood and firelighters to light the fire however the chimney has probably not been cleaned in sometime so when you do top it up it absolutely fills the entire house with smoke which is both unhealthy and dangerous, we had to then put the fire out because we were coughing so much.
I then had to ask if he would put the central heating on because it was so unbelievably cold he then unlocked a box in the kitchen with a screwdriver (yes you are reading this right the heating dial is kept under lock and key) and told me that it would be on only at set times please bear in mind this is in December in Ireland, and the set times that he gave us he said it would keep the house warm when we got home. Our first night we returned at about 1 am and it was bitterly cold and the heating had not sustained or kept the property warm we were absolutely freezing and had to keep our clothes on to go to bed this is an utterly bizarre and archaic system and the heating should be on the whole time the guests are there and the guests should be able to control the heating themselves and not use such a bizarre mean and archaic system. It totally spoiled my stay to be honest I think this property should be closed during the winter because of how cold it is.
I only met one of the vendor’s and he was a very nice man and yes he got the Wi-Fi to work with protest however the rest of it was a disappointment.
I have videoed how I left the property which was spotless. Nobody can complain about us.