I’ve had to have a long think about my review and now I’m ready to write it.
Firstly I want to say that we have to remember that 5* hotels are not the same as 5* rentals - there is no 24/7 handyman or concierge or front of house staff and that has to be taken into consideration when you pay - a hotel for 4 of us for 2 nights would have probably been double the cost of this airbnb.
Ok so first of all I’m going to do the positives:
We arrived slightly early and were given an earlier check in without any issue which was great as we could put all the luggage in.
The outdoor area was a real winner the floral wall and seating are were fabulous and the hot tub (I didn’t use) was a proper hot tub, that looked great and I did look under the cover and the water was crystal clear and clean - we just didn’t have a chance to use it as we had a lot planned.
The house appeared clean and tidy and the carpets were lovely and plush. Beds were very comfortable and the bedding was clean and fresh.
location was great - lots of lovely wee coffee shops literally on your door step and bus route to the city centre was about a 5minute walk. A taxi was around £10 from city centre so yes, location was great.
Ok onto the negatives:
When we first walked in, as I said it was clean and tidy but there was a weird smell that was dampish..we didn’t think much of it as the over powering smell of plug ins and reid defusers masked it..however I don’t like the smell of plug ins so I went round and switched them all off (every room had one!) I also took the two reid defusers out of my bedroom which was the master room as it was way too strong. There were quite a few dead flies in the en-suite and master’s window sill which didn’t bother me overly much, however, wasn’t the nicest thing to be greeted by. When we got back from
Being out for the afternoon/evening and walked through the front door there was a definite stronger smell of dampness/rotting Something..but we persevered and went to bed. The next morning we went out for the morning and when we got back the smell was even worse - it was rancid. Now I have to say that I didn’t call or message the host to advise him so I don’t want to say that nothing was done because I didn’t mention it until we were leaving and the host was very apologetic and said I could have a free stay. I do think that the excessive plug ins and Reid defusers would suggest that the smell was already known about - it did put a real dampner on our stay.
As I’ve already said, the beds and bedding were comfy and clean, however, my sister has a really bad allergy to feathers and I emailed at time of booking to ask about the bedding and I got a reply saying it was all hypo allergenic bedding - this was not the case and all bedding was feather and she had to move all the feather bedding out of her room and bought a pillow and quilt from primark.
We had brought champagne with us and due to quite a few of the glasses having cracks or breaks to them We had to
Use tumblers - I did message the host and he said to count and send him how many needed replaced (not really my job to do and didn’t get replaced for our stay)
This review is accurate and If you chose to stay here I reckon it’d be great - as long as the smell was gone.