There are a lot of extra rules at Liz’s place stuck to the wall. Don’t cook fish or curry she doesn’t like the smell. If she has to clean the oven it will take her an hour. Don’t wash her linen but then she will probably try and charge you if it’s dirty (like a tea towel!).
The place is beautiful and clean though the lounge cold. There are lots of condiments in the fridge and cupboards you’re free to use but they are all over a year out of date. Beware.
The location is perfect for a pretty 30 min walk along the river to centre.
The only quibble I have is that when we got out the car, instead of introducing herself Liz looked at my kids and told them they look nothing like eachother which my bright 10 year old found offensive and wondered if she was insinuating something to my husband of 15 years?!
And when there was an issue with a felt tip stained sheet (which we had never seen) instead of ask if it was our kids etc I got a stream of aggressive messages demanding money which I part paid in the hope she’s leave me alone despite suspicious ‘evidence’ being a zoomed in photo. No photo after said sheet had been washed. We also got an attempted charge of $100 for a plastic toaster knob which kept coming off? Though toaster worked. Liz also thinks we stole 1 bath towel and left our own grey one. We, a professional couple
With 2 children travelling NZ and Australia brought 4 beach towels which didn’t come out until Sydney because linen was provided everywhere until then. What exactly would we want with one bath towel and why would we bring one (grey?!) bath towel?
Had Liz messaged me as politely and gently as I have her throughout the process, I wouldn’t have written all of this detail in a review but there’s a serious etiquette lesson to be learned here. She caused me and my family a great deal of anxiety which affected the rest of our stay and I had to report her and get her blocked from messaging me.
I would recommend that you do not go here if you have children.