First off, the location and the cost were really convenient, and I am very thankful for that! I wanted to stay not in a hotel, so that went into my decision making.
Getting the keys from the nearby store was fairly close and easy to do. The workers were very easy going, so that was nice. Dropping it off was super simple. The keys themselves had a little learning curve for me at least, so stick to it.
When we got there, the beds were made, and there was plenty of linen for the my group of 6 women, 2 of us get cold easily, so that was very nice!
Unfortunately, I ran into a few issues with the place. My mom walked around in socks for about 30 minutes and noticed they got very dirty in such a short time. My group ran out of toilet paper (only half a roll to being) the very first night, and there was no more to be found in the whole place. I messaged the host, Aaron, right away when we learned about the issue, but he didn't respond until 2 hrs later, and I had fallen asleep from jetlag by that point. I would hope that a small business owner could be more responsive especially on the first day. My cousins woke up before me and were able to get a pack (which we used up really quickly as women do), and Aaron was gracious enough to give me £5 for it. Solved.
There was only about a quarter of hand soap in the restroom, so I grabbed the extra dish soap to use after that ran out.
The washer and dryer were listed as amenities. I had to go out to buy some detergent because there was none. I'm not sure if that is a thing. Just saying because it happened. I was concerned that there was a rank smell and a couple of old towels in there apparently. Also, there was some mold on the door, so i kinda cleaned that up and washed those towels before we started our laundry. *shudder* The dryer did not work well and took a long time to actually dry things.
I would also like to add that some of the pictures in the place did creep me out because of the quantity.
This is neither good nor bad to me, but the shower was a bit tiny for 2 of my family members who are just slightly bigger and have really big chests. *chuckle* Not an issue I share!
I would like to apologize if my one cousin bothered any of the neighbors!! I tried to talk to her to get her to stop, and she became more obnoxious in my opinion. I learned that lesson the hard way.
I had quite a bit of communication with Aaron all in all. A handyman that was supposed to come fix the windows wanted to arrive earlier when we were there, and he was very understanding of us not wanting to be unmasked around a stranger due to covid.
I would book with him again in the future and maybe these things were just a series of unfortunate events.