MH85
Google
The accommodation is lovely, the grounds are beautiful, the rooms are clean if not borderline boring, the pool area is clean. However the TV did not receive a signal and the remote did not work. ||The breakfast was an excellent quality continental breakfast of cheese, ham, yogurt and fresh bread and coffee. Not a pastry in sight, despite many lovely patisserie in the town. I get the feeling the host is more interested in imposing their view of healthy eating than considering the tastes of her guests.||Despite the many positives, the service and attitude was sub-par. We received a voicemail message on the day of arrival telling us that we would need to check in by 6pm as the host would be going out for the evening. The “welcome” email informed us in no certain terms we should arrive after 5pm (quite late if you ask me). We had made plans for the day, and were planning on checking in post 7pm. So we rearranged our plans and we arrived mid-afternoon.||On arrival there is a large metal gate, which require security entry. It took several phone calls to the number listed to get through the gate. (Perhaps all an ominous sign of the type of welcome you should expect). The host immediately reprimanded us for coming too far up the drive-way - beyond the poorly signposted parking. Then continued the reprimand by informing us we were ‘lucky’ she was even in as check-in was only after 5pm…..despite HER calling us on the day to tell us we’d have to arrive before 6pm. ||We were also informed, upon arrival, that the room I had specifically booked and paid for was not available as someone else had opted to stay on, and as such we would be in another room. No discussion, just told.||Despite trying to counter the generally hostile host by being polite and pleasant, I was AGAIN spoken down to when I requested a spoon for my yogurt at breakfast…there was one provided for coffee, apparently, I was told, was sufficient. A 2nd spoon was begrudgingly delivered but only when I’d eaten the yogurt using the coffee spoon.||As another review has suggested, if your looking to enjoy yourself, relax and forget about the time, this perhaps isn’t the place for you. It has more in common with a monastery than somewhere to relax. If me being at your home is an inconvenience, don’t advertise it on the internet and don’t charge me to stay, I’ll find someone who is happy to host my wife and I.
