Our trip at Nev's was a total disaster, even if he's a sweet guy. Though what happened to us wasn’t his fault, he’s still responsible for it.
At first, everything seemed fine : the house is at a rather short walking distance from Blackhorse road station on Victoria. The room was nicely furnished. The bathroom was okay. Kitchen had the the bare minimum, but we never intented to eat there. Don't plan to have a good english breakfast, you just get toasts and some sort of butter that doesn't taste nothing. Also, contrary to what's on the pictures, the room has no TV set.
To understand what's coming, keep in mind that 2 of the 3 rooms are on the first floors, the third being above them.
Our troubles started at night :
- The walls are so thin that you hear everything coming from the other rooms, including ringtones, chatter and snorting. It’s very annoying, you can’t relax at night because there’s always some disturbing noise.
- The flooring is so bad that every step sounds like there's an elephant right above you. The ladies above us decided it was comfier to keep their shoes on all night.
- The bedroom door has some sort of glass window above it. When someone decides to take a stroll in the middle of the night, not only do you hear him/her unlock the door, step out of the room and progressing to the bathroom with difficulty, but you also have to bear with the bright light coming thru this glass window, as if was the middle of the day. And when the other guests sleeping in the room adjacent to ours, who came back drunk at 4pm, forgot to turn the lights off and made enough noise to wake up the whole area, you just can't sleep. This is unacceptable. I know this isn’t some fancy hotel, but you still expect something decent. And this wasn’t.
We were offered 2 free nights to make it up for these inconveniences. I don't think we'll come back to Nev's. We just had too many problems.