4/10 Poor
Ed H., Witney, UK
Oct 30, 2023
Disliked: Cleanliness
Needs renovation and more attention to detail
I liked the:
- size: very spacious;
- view of wooded ravine from living room;
- homely feel of living room;
- comfortable bed;
- lack of traffic noise;
- beautiful road in which house is situated;
- nearby trails;
- responsiveness of hosts to my requests and their concern to put things right quickly;
- gift card from hosts for the trouble I'd been caused;
- new electric kettle from hosts to replace stovetop kettle.
I didn't like the following:
- Lack of basic provisions on arrival. Having just travelled from airport about 9 pm, I couldn't even make myself a hot drink.
- On arrival, the feeling of cold and damp. However, hosts quickly responded by turning on heating.
- Heating is controlled by hosts, although they were responsive to my requests for temperature changes.
- Heating system is very noisy.
- Accommodation appears rather scruffy in places, for example marks on walls and skirting board coming away from wall in bathroom.
- Accommodation was not cleaned very thoroughly, for example limescale on shower head, dirty oven.
- Nowhere in bathroom to hang clothes.
- No side plates in kitchen.
- No mirror in bedroom.
- Mould around washer door seal. I couldn't clean this off because it's become "permanent".
- There was no laundry basket. However, when I mentioned this, hosts immediately provided one.
- There appears to be no soundproofing around apartment. So, you can hear talking, footsteps, coughing and so on from hosts, though it's very quiet for most of the day.
Ed H.
Stayed 41 nights in Sep 2023