I thought the accommodation was clean and welcoming, the hosts son was there to greet me and he was really friendly and showed me round. The place was warm as the lovely coal fire was going, I was excited to be staying there.
To describe the accommodation, it is a house separate to the hosts main house, there is a large communal space with cooking and seating facilities, there is also a washer and dryer for guests to use for €10.
There are two bedrooms straight off this area and I was of the understanding that I had the place to myself as I was told this by the hosts son, but there is clearly others who use the communal area. I returned at 10pm from the village pub to find the tumble dryer was going. This was loud and I had to try and relax in the communal area with it going on, I eventually stopped it as I was going to bed and there was no way of my sleeping with such a noise so close to my bedroom. I had left my dog in the communal area as I didn’t like her in the bedroom (didn’t think it was fair on the host) and I left my room door open and drifted off to sleep.
At 00:15 I was woken by two people coming in for their washing (I believe the female is the hosts daughter but could have been a guest if there were more rooms outside who knows) this woke my dog and me. The female then put the dryer back on and I had to tell them that I had to turn it off, she asked if it was disturbing me and I said yes I couldn’t sleep, both parties appeared shocked at this and there was some form of discussion in the area. They then left and I tried to sleep but I could then hear them arguing from where they were obviously staying, in an adjoining property. I got to sleep around 1am.
I assumed that was the end of it but then I was woken at 7:15 with the host coming in and messing with the dryer, I couldn’t believe it. The couple then returned and removed the dryer from the work surface, leaving a layer of dust underneath it. I was well awake at this point, so was my dog! I couldn’t sleep after this whole situation.
I did raise this with the host but she didn’t appear that bothered about it, this I felt was the biggest let down. If the couple were other guests they clearly had no respect for other users and the host needs to put rules in place for using the dryer, if it was the hosts daughter, even more shocking! Perhaps she should change the listing to communal area shared with family who are happy using it at 00:15.
This was the worst nights sleep of the two week trip, I’m sorry to have to write such a poor review but for how much it costs I expected at least a good nights sleep. It may be better listing as a hostel as that’s what it felt like (although I’ve had better more respectful experiences in hostels).
The fact that I raised it in the morning and no major apology did upset me.
For anyone wishing to stay, you need to hope there are respectful guests or whoever else comes in, if you haven’t got that you will 100% not have a good nights sleep. Upon reading further down the reviews I see someone else had a issue with a long term let (possibly the same person I have had).
I do hope others get lucky with who else is there or that the host changes things round within the location.