Gina H.
Yelp
DO NOT STAY AT THIS PLACE! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
I am a world traveller who returned to live in Brisbane after living in California for 13 years. I booked a 2-bed/2-bath online from the website the accommodation looked great for $135 a night. I paid $2,000 4 months in advance to stay 15 days with my mother, sister and 2 yr old nephew. Don't be fooled by the website. The rooms are much smaller, the place is on top of a hill, so unless you're very fit, young, or have a car, be prepared to walk up and down some very large hills to get to a supermarket or to get to the city centre which is a good 45 minute walk. The buses are not regular and cabs are very expensive to get anywhere from the top of Spring Hill. The rooms are smaller than they look and are DIRTY! The kitchen was not clean and the whole apt was dusty with cobwebs out on the balcony and spiders! We had to clean the apt ourselves with products we bought ourselves from Woolworths (a 30 minute walk from the building). We arrived first week of March to 30 degree heat and 90% humidity and the pool was dirty! And the Centenary Pool up the street ($5 admission) was closed and we weren't informed about that. ! It was stinking hot in Brisbane and the pool area was dirty with dead leaves and branches in and around the pool. We couldn't let our child get into it! Such a shame when it was sooooooooo HOT!!! The bathroom shower was clogged and we had to fix it ourselves, the t.v. was all dusty as was the whole apt. The cleaned is one small skinny immigrant girl who can barely push the vacuum. We had to borrow it off her and clean the floors ourselves. The office closes at midday so if you arrive to check in after that, be prepared for nobody to be there. All of this is not even that bad, compared to HOW UTTERLY BAD THE MANAGEMENT PEOPLE ARE. They are a family of mother, daughter and father (the ony maintenance man who comes and goes regularly to Adelaide so he's basically never on-site). They are the RUDEST, most ignorant, laziest, bad attitude people I've met in my 47 yrs of life on this planet. They say on their website that they're friendly but they treat all guests, long term and short term with distain if you go to them with any issue at all! The mother and daughter are obese and lethargic and don't get off their chair from 9 am until they leave at midday. Their office is cluttered, disorganized and dirty. When we arrived I stood in the foyer for 10 minutes with my bags while the mother, Wendy, finished her personal call. All she ever did the whole 15 days I was there was be on the phone making personal calls and staring out the door to the road. RUDE, RUDE, RUDE. We were waiting the 2 weesk to move into our house which was being renovated, and asked them to keep our mail for just 2 weeks which we would come collect, and they ended up returning it all to the senders without even telling us. They were so nasty to me, my sister and elderly mother - for no reason. We made no demands of them because we didn't want to be ignored or abused. The mother Wendy, is bipolar because one minute she'd be fake to us and the next, so extremely rude for no reason. The daughter, Luci is just sad, probably because she hates her job, which was not our fault. They treated everyone like crap! I intend to find out who owns this building and let them know of our bad experience and also the Brisbane health dept and fair trading dept. If you can afford to stay at a better place, please do so as you'll have a much better time in Brisbane!!!!!