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14. august 2024
My wife booked this place for a one night stay back in May so we could collect our son from university. Pulling up to the place I was impressed, wonderful looking building from the outside, car park and garden area short of some maintenance however. We attempted check in at the scheduled time, to be told by the very young Chinese lad who spoke quite broken English that the room wasn’t ready yet. To kill time I took a trip to the toilet, where I was greeted by two males and a female coming out of one of the cubicles carrying a packet of what I assume was sherbet dip, but I could be mistaken.. We managed check in eventually, and were taken to our room by the young lad from reception. The signage leading to the rooms was erm interesting, and set the president for the stay. The room was a bit tired looking and not in keeping with the style of the property. The bathroom was in need of renovating and didn’t appear very clean imo. There was no iron in the room and this proved to be impossible to resolve, the young lad after we Google translated what an iron was, said he would bring us one but this never materialised. So out we went looking like students ourselves. Whilst sat in a restaurant in Stirling, my better half received a few Whattsapp messages from our little friend on reception, stating we hadn’t paid for our room and could we come back and sort this…. Now, slightly concerning is the fact this came from what looked like a personal account not a business one, and surely this is somehow a breach of GDPR taking a clients number? Maybe not….We had booked and paid via an online booking app, but the messages continued until my wife said we will sort when we get back etc. Now upon returning to get some sleep this is where the fun began….. The gap around our door (wouldn’t pass a fire test) let in beams of light everytime someone used the corridor, and when I say beams of light I mean we were expecting someone to burst through declaring ‘Tonight Matthew I’m gunna be’ followed by smoke and bad music.. see pics.. This was constant btw, eventually I managed to fall into the land of nod. Only to be awoken around 2-3am by what sounded like Japanese/chinese game shows on a TV, full BLAST in the middle of the night, followed by someone emptying buckets of water into a toilet, mopping a floor, and moving furniture/chairs around…… this went on for quite some time. The Stars in your eyes continued throughout the night, along with the Japanese sounding game show TV 📺 on full blast. I honestly thought my Wife had booked some kind of comedy hotel and I was being filmed, like a Karen’s diner, but hotel edition. This wasn’t the case and I wouldn’t ever stop here again, it’s such a wonderful building to look at despite being rebuilt and not completely original. But it lacks so much to meet its true potential. Yes it’s a delayed review but I have just recovered the pictures to support it. Not for me this one.
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