“The property is in an ideal location near the town centre, harbour and main beach.”
It was very clean, spacious, with good beds and probably the best equipped place we have ever stayed in (eg over 120 drinking glasses of all shapes and sizes) although no oven gloves or non stick frying pan. There was a decent garden with basic garden furniture and lots of flowers (that we watered from the hose as it was so hot).
However,
a) there is only one car parking space. We were only told at the last minute that the length of the space is 7 metres 70 cms. The length of the smallest UK Mini is 3.87 metres and even if the second car could go into the space sideways, crablike, which is physically impossible, the 7.7 metres is too small for 2 tiny minis. They expect you to get the length of two cars into the same space as the width of 2 garages, We had hoped for a bit of leeway on the length but with neighbouring cars parked right up to the edge of the space there was no leeway. We had to pay £63 to park the second car 10 minutes walk away which was quite a chunk of our holiday spending money. There is free parking in the streets around, if you can find it, but only for an hour at a time.
b) there is no access to the house from the parking space so all your stuff has to be carried quite a long way round the block to the front of the house. In the end we gave up and parked the car illegally on the pavement on the busy, double-yellow-lined road, to offload before driving round the back to park.
c) you can’t see the car from the house when it is parked which is a security risk, so had to walk round every day to check it was OK.
d) we arrived too early in Weymouth so stocked up for the week with frozen food as the blurb said there was a freezer but the only place for frozen stuff was a tiny icebox in the top of the fridge and our frozen food was left slowly defrosting in the fridge, meaning there was no room eg to cool drinks in that very hot May half term week. Even the handbook at the property says there is a freezer near the washing machine, but there was no freezer.
e) one bedroom had a loo and basin in the room but for the other four bedrooms the nearest loo was 3 flights of stairs away, which is not clear from the blurb - difficult if you need the loo in the middle of the night.
f) the bedroom on the 3rd floor had no space to hang clothes and the nearest shower was 2 floors down.
g) not their fault but the shop underneath the flat was being renovated and the banging and drilling was pretty constant during the day and very loud, even on the Bank Holiday.
