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Reviews of Charming Family Hotel

3 out of 5
Charming Family Hotel
10100 Francis Rd, Richmond, BC

Reviews

7.6

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 57 out of 145 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 37 out of 145 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 23 out of 145 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 13 out of 145 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 15 out of 145 reviews" "

8.0/10

Cleanliness

7.8/10

Staff & service

7.4/10

Amenities

7.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

6/10 Okay

Lavinia

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness
I like the responsiveness of the owner of this property. Talked to her. Very nice lady. Our room was not clean at all. The bathrooms have lots of stain. The floor was not swept clean as I can see hairs on the floor. I have straight hair. My husband has no hair but we see curly hair so I know it's not swept clean. I do not believe the floor was mopped because we see stains on the floor. There was a dresser. I found some items on the top drawer such as playing cards, a item tag, etc. in the middle drawer there was a soiled t-shirts or some type of clothing item. There was a table with the plate cups and teapot, a hot water boiler. There was also a coffee maker and some coffee and sugar I believe. I use the water kettle. There was an insect inside. The teapot still had some water inside. I ended up washing everything on the table. The plate that holds the cups has slimes on it. That tells me it has not been washed for a long time. Overall, I'm giving this place no more than three stars. I give credit to the owner for responsiveness but I really think this place needs a lot of improvement in terms of cleanliness. For the price I pay $150 US dollars a night is not worth it at all. The tendons still have to a fee for cleaning. My question is why wasn't the place cleaned?
Stayed 2 nights in May 2024
Response from Una on May 27, 2024
I just read your reviews but I don’t know why you didn’t feel good. Everything we clean after every guests. The heating comes under the floor so sometimes there are dust coming out, This is the problem caused by floor heating. If your home also has floor heating, you will understand. After you guys checked out, I found that all the bath towels were heavily stained with various colors, probably cosmetics. I tried my best to wash them but couldn't get them out, so I had to throw them away. Just because you paid to stay here, you can damage other people's things at will? You are not welcome to B&B I think. You should go to 6 stars Hotel.

6/10 Okay

Karamjit

Stayed 4 nights in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

Suryo

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I think it’s convenient to stay there. That’s all.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2024

8/10 Good

Deanna

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

2/10 Terrible

daniel

Travelled with family
Disliked: Amenities
The house is nice, terrible noise, people talking loudly in Chinese language from 10 pm to very early morning outside my room door had to knock on my own door for them to acknowledge me, I will NEVER book or recommend this place. Terrible experience
Stayed 1 night in May 2024
Response from Una on May 8, 2024
So sorry about your feelings. Last night upstairs I heard some other guest asking some questions about where to go shopping. They just talked a little while and you knocked the door, so they stopped talking.Not more than 5 minutes. And your room lights were still on. When you knocked the door they stopped and said sorry to you. That’s it. Nobody talk to early morning! You are in a public place, not your home. You can not so mean to others.

6/10 Okay

Cindy

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
The owner was very friendly and check-in was easy and smooth. There was no TV in the room. We found the suite to be really cold. We could not see a heat register, thermostat or a baseboard heater anywhere in the room, so there was no heat coming from anywhere. If we had spent more time in the room, we would have requested a space heater. The house shook quite significantly when a large truck drove by. At first we thought it was an earthquake tremor. Other than that it was a nice room. Great shower, nice clean bathroom. The beds were very firm, but made for a good sleep.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024
Response from Una on May 3, 2024
Sorry about your feelings. The heat is floor heating and the switch is on the wall beside the door.

10/10 Excellent

Paola

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
All great
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Ranjeet

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Good
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

6/10 Okay

Sukhman

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Yushan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice and friendly host. Beautiful house, close to shopping.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Michael

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Staff was super friendly and very easy to check in/out.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Man Ching

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very nice host.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

2/10 Terrible

Roxana

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It does not specify that this is a house. There is no air circulation, there is a bad smell in the home, very dark. There was another guest occupant in the other bedroom who kept getting up during the night and pacing outside of our room, this made me feel very uneasy and unsafe. There is a large gap under the doors to the bedroom and the light comes in through there as well as the noise from the other guest using the bathroom right outside our door. There was a lot of trash, empty bottle water and papers in the drawers, no creamer or enough water for coffee for 2 guest and no regular sugar. There is no heater in the home so environment is very cold. It is ok to rent rooms like that but this place needs great improvement and decor needs to be racially neutral. I would not go back to this place.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024
Response from Una on Mar 25, 2024
So sorry about your feelings. I know you were bothered by another guest who stayed next to your room,but it’s happened sometimes when we outside stay in hostels. We couldn’t prevent others behaving. The heating switch is on the wall in your bedroom and you didn’t turn it on. About coffee sugar, I have already put it beside the coffee maker.

6/10 Okay

Riya

Travelled with partner
Provide some water for drinking and some plates for fooding
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Rod

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Fantastic
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Robert

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Michael

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

4/10 Poor

Beverley

Liked: Cleanliness

10/10 Excellent

Luke

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
All was fine except parking. Street out front was full of ice and snow and not maintained. As we were instructed to not park in driveway but on the street, we had to walk through slushy wet snow drifts and got shoes and socks wet. Also nearly missed an early morning flight when car got momentarily stuck in the piles of snow where we had to park. Otherwise the room was clean and the host friendly and accommodating.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

8/10 Good

kizzy

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

8/10 Good

Harrison

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Too close to the road. Any truck drive pass the whole property it is moving and noise.
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Rohit

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Rohit

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Viktoria

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice little family hotel, warm welcome, cozy room, new bathroom (I had the room w/ the private bathroom), wifi works. The traffic outside can be a little loud, but it's Vancouver 😅. Bathroom could be a little bit cleaner, tho toilet and sink were clean and towels were fresh.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

6/10 Okay

Dipesh

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

chad

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The place was very nice and quiet, in good area of the airport. Will stay again
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Amelie

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
While there was a bit of noise at times, the hosts were very welcoming and helpful. We enjoyed our stay and would recommend.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Michaela

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Didn't like the noise other guests were making and the noisy road in front of the house. The beds are great.... I missed that there was no tea or coffee in the rooms,even the coffeemaker was there.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Maria

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Mark

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The little hotel was a very pleasant place to spend the night and compared to many other hotels the price was not through the roof. The location within about 20 minutes of the vancouver airport was very convenient . The room #1 was spacious and very clean with a very tidy bright bathroom. I would stay here again.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Xiao

Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2023

6/10 Okay

Naomi

Business traveller, Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness
The bathroom was so dirty. Pee on the walls and around the toilet. Thankfully we were only there for one short night.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023
Response from Una on Sep 21, 2023
We will try to clean after every one use it. It’s a shared bathroom so somebody did it unexpectedly.

10/10 Excellent

Vannary

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

6/10 Okay

GIN HOOI

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Got what one pay for!
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Lisa

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Secure
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Joanne

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Patricia

Travelled with family, Business traveller
Liked: Staff & service
It was affordable
Stayed 6 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Cathy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Things were well signed. The hostess was friendly and helpful.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

6/10 Okay

chung, berkeley

Actually I did not stay there so my review is based on listing. After the booking I went to read listing again and then I realized may there was problem for me. I am an old man and get up many times at night. There was no telling where the bathroom was: how far from my room? At upstairs or downstairs? Did I will go past other room and guests and disturb others? So I decide booking another hotel. This place was at good location in Richmond that was I picked it. My stay in Vancouver was a short visit only 24 hours. I hope it will tell me more in future.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023
Response from Una on Aug 31, 2023
It‘s so interesting that you didn‘t stay here and you gave me a review. I texted you for the code that you can check in by yourself you didn’t answer so I called you , you said you’ll have something important to do so you couldn’t come . If you told me you were concerning about the bathroom, I can choose another room with a private bathroom or you can book it by yourself . in fact, the bathroom is beside your bedroom, is only one step away from your room . now had another excuse. which one is true? Anyway, thank you for your booking.

10/10 Excellent

Jimi

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Yoon Jae

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

8/10 Good

GRACE

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jean-Sebastien

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

A K

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice place to stay, quiet, very short driving distance to airport. Value for money, walking distance to shops, restaurants and other amenities.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Patricia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The room was very clean and comfortable and had a coffee maker and coffee.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

4/10 Poor

John and Siony

Travelled with family
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
We didn't check in because we realized it was a shared bathroom, definitely not something I would have expected of Expedia. We paid to go somewhere else.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023
Response from Una on Aug 13, 2023
Nobody forced you to book a shared bathroom.

2/10 Terrible

FARSHID

Booked for 2 nights, told not able to use shower after midnight. So canceled the morning of the first day. Not refundable. Most hotels charge only one night in case of cancelation before check in hour. This is not a “Hotel” just used the “Hotel” name for marketing and manipulation.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023
Response from Una on Aug 12, 2023
According to the policy you cannot get a refund. you want to cancel on the check in day it’s not right.

10/10 Excellent

DEAN

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Owner was very pleasant. She answered all my questions. The room and bathroom were very clean. Bed was comfortable. Very convenient location for catching the 8:00 am ferry from Tswwassen.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

WENDIAN

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

4/10 Poor

Ingrid

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Bathroom not clean, not enough towels, internet and TV did not work. The drawers were full of private stuff
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023
Response from Una on Aug 6, 2023
You've used six towels in two days and you say you don't have enough. I don't know how many towels are enough for you. You said the bathroom was dirty, I said I'd clean it, and you said you couldn't see it now. Your cell phone is very old and it's hard to get online. I helped you get online!