The location was perfect.
I wouldn’t say the house was ‘fitted out to the highest standard’. In fact it was the poorest I have come across in about a decade of renting houses around Ireland.
The beds were very comfortable. There was ample hanging space in each of the bedrooms.. However, apart from drawers in the bedside lockers there were no drawers for jumpers, T-shirt’s etc. The master bedroom had a table but no chair. The room was large enough to accommodate a chest of drawers, which is a basic requirement when clients, like us, have clothes for a week.
Luckily the weather was quite mild most of the week we were there. We needed to turn on the heat a few evenings and found the system very complicated, particularly the bathroom radiators. The living room radiator got barely lukewarm despite showing 20*.
More than 2 presses in the kitchen were given over to glasses. - approximately 60, of varying shapes and sizes - we did manage to find 4 matching wine glasses! There was no press left empty for food. The overall impression this gave was of carelessness and ‘this will do them’attitude.
It’s the little things that count in this business. When we discovered that the toilet paper rolls in both bathrooms were half empty it told us a lot.
Because of Covid 19 I expected that prices would be a bit higher than usual this September. I was satisfied to pay the much inflated price in the belief that we were getting a high standard of accommodation but was let down. A few small changes would make a big difference.