Where Do I Begin? - Part 4

Where Do I Begin? - Part 1 

Where Do I Begin? - Part 2 

Where Do I Begin? - Part 3 

The hotel itself was a lovely looking building.  It was just miles and miles and miles from anywhere!  I never was very good at map reading in geography and it certainly showed now.  Those brown marks all over the area meant ‘very hilly place’.

It’s supposed to be a 4 star hotel but while it’s had a lot of money spent on it and the decor is fresh and there is some beautiful furniture, it still needs more work on it.

For instance the family room we had was plenty big enough for 2 adults and 3 children.  The brass bed knob on the double bed was broken.  When I mentioned it, they already knew about it but hadn’t got round to it.  There were hundreds of little black flies on the window sill.  No bedside table or lamp next to the single bed.

No mirror to apply makeup or do your hair in the main bedroom (unless you count standing on the bed to blow dry your hair).  The bunk beds proved a great play area but the surrounding wood was very dark making the bottom bunk really claustrophobic.  I ended up with two children sleeping in with me because of it.

The fan in the bathroom was making a dreadful noise which again they already knew about but hadn’t been fixed.  And there was tea and coffee in the room but it was high up (with the kettle) on a chest of drawers.  Bit of a danger with children playing around below the area.  Plus the tv that was on a pull out metal stand was also above the chest of drawers and kept knocking the stuff on the tray when you pulled the tv out.

The staff were very pleasant and helpful but for a four star hotel it needed some ‘before’ thought not ‘after’ thought.  And they never even bothered to vaccuum the room when they came in to make the beds up.  Considering we were out in the sticks so to speak which in turn would mean messy shoes, you would have thought this would have been a given.

My sister did have to give me the verbal equivalent of a smack around the face to stop me from getting hysterical and upsetting the children, but apart from that . . . .

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