Firstly, Kevin is a really lovely bloke. Great to chat to and very interesting.
We arrived at the house, it was messy like you would expect a family home to be. However, this was not a family home. Kevin let’s out all the rooms in the house to various people. They seemed nice enough.
Kevin showed us to the room, very small but that was expected. It’s a bed, a chest of draws and a broken wardrobe and a lamp. That’s it. Ok it was cheap so wasn’t expecting the Hilton. The bed was solid. Like laying on the floor hard. Very very uncomfortable. The pillows were so thin that I had to roll it up to get any kind of pillow out of it. This was still not good. The duvet is thin. It was hot so maybe that’s why. The bedroom was so hot that even with the window open it made no difference.
There was a lot of hair in the room.
At 3 am I decided to go for a walk as I couldn’t stand the heat or the uncomfortableness of the bed and pillow. I went downstairs to use the loo first and and jumped out of my skin to find Kevin lying asleep on the sofa next to the bathroom. I’m guessing he had let he’s own bedroom out. I was scared to turn the light on so went into the bathroom and had to feel around for the light switch, to my horror there was what I thought a huge spider in the sink. I hate spiders so was scared. Turns out the spider was a massive crack in the sink.
The toilet had faeces up the back of the toilet bowel. It was so dirty. The bathroom itself looked like it was being used by at least 10 people. There was stuff everywhere. Anyway, I eventually went for a walk for an hour.
Coming back, I went to the room. While I had been gone, someone had run an electricity cable across from 1 room to another, because it was dark and because Kevin was sleep I was unable to turn a light on, I tripped over the cable. I went back down at 8 after watching a couple of movies on my phone. Kevin was still asleep. I had a shower and found that someone in the house must have athletes foot. There was a dirty tub of athletes foot powder above the bath. The bath also needed spraying down before I could get In because it was dirty. Hanging on the wall was a filthy mouldy bath mat. It was disgusting with black mould all over it.
I went back to the room after a shower I told my partner I wanted out. My partner agreed it was horrendous.
We packed our bags and loaded up the car. We then went in and told Kevin that we were not staying for the next 2 of the 3 nights we had booked. Kevin asked why. There was another person in the room so rather than embarrassing him I told him because it was hot and had an uncomfortable bed and the pillows were shocking thin. The reality was, Kevin’s place needs a good clean.
I found nothing of what the positive reviews suggest. It was cheap. There is no question of the price, however, it was filthy and no price, regardless of how cheap it was, should justify letting part of your home to strangers and expecting them to stay in those conditions.
Sorry Kevin, it’s what I found.