Lovely 1 Bedroom Apartment

Clean tidy had all basic equipment

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Secure parking. Lovely bathroom. Plenty of storage space. Prettily laid dining table. Condiments provided.

Only one bath towel. Ants in the kitchen. Although there was a bowl of fruit, it was going off and there was an open packet of biscuits in the cupboard. Not easy to access the coast because of the Brittany Ferries terminal.

It was clean. The bed was comfortable, as was the sofa and the armchair. The TV was great but I didn't need to test the WiFi as the area has 5G. It had pretty much everything we needed aroud the kitchen and bathroom. The decor was interesting. Using the same wall paper or colour on all of the walls of a room was not something the designer seemed to have considered. There were lots of quite nice quality fake flowers in the living room in particular. Communications with the host were great - friendly and very responsive. He was there waiting for us when we arrived and showed us where to park and then showed us how to get into the apartment and handed over the keys and the undeground car park gate fob and left us to it. The balcony was fine and had an ashtray (which is a good thing).

The photo of the location on the listing is a little, shall we say, "disingenuous". There is a red arrow which one naturally assumes points reasonably accurately to the location of the apartment. It looks as if it is on the third floor, one or two apartments in from the direction of the sea, and the listing also mentions the lifts as being a feature which further boosts the idea that it reasonably high up. It is actually on the ground floor and more like 4 or 5 apartments in the sea. Therefore instead of looking out almost straight at the sea, you are at street level facing the industrial end of a large VW dealer. Sure you can see the sea, and easily walk there but it is not what I expected. It also made me reasonably cautious about leaving balcony door or bed room window open - especially as when I arrived there were a number of lads hanging about at the end of the street, most of them staggering about to a greater or lesser extent. They were probably harmless, but nonetheless, I kept the balcony door shut when I was not in the room. Also one or two of the vertical blind panels were missing so once you had pulled them into position, you the had to individually drag others into place to achieve a full curtain. Aside from that, it is a bit tired and probably needs some items to be refreshed. My main concern was the balcony door which is quite a hefty item controlled by a handle which is really floppy. If you don't get the movement quite right when closing, it does not engage, and you have to try again. Each time I tried I got more concerned that the handle was just going to break. The stovetop was a bit scratched up, the 'kickboards' had probably been measured incorrectly when first installed, and one of them was broken.

Location was fine

The cigarette butts on the veranda The noise from the cleaning cupboard The smell of damp throughout The view of the garage opposite