Uncomfortable Environment
An Uncomfortable Environment
We do love a good spa experience when cruising at sea, so this time we thought we would experience an on land experience at Frinton-on-Sea.
Note that all my reviews on trip advisor are based on honest feedback. So let’s start with the:
Positive:
Outstanding location, about 1.5 miles from the town centre and coast line. Set in a lovely setting with good garden landscapes.
Check in process was simple and effective, although I’m not one to like the pre authorisation of £50:00 going on the card.
Bedroom was a nice size, good views and comfy bed.
Breakfast good quality, good choices, and food hot from the buffet.
Negatives:
The Spa Swimming pool was cold and whilst it has lovely brown rattan sun loungers, the environment is spoilt, where they have put in extra cheap white plastic sun loungers to accommodate for the additional peak times; no doubt to simply to drive up the revenue.
Lack of lighting over the jacuzzi tub area. Only one over head spray working,
Wet steam room was ok as was the salt hydration room.
Our Bathroom: The shower tray was dirty as was the floor.
All the general common areas of the hotel and our room was excessively hot and you had no way of controlling the temperature in your room. It was like having to visit someone in a care home where they keep the heating on fall blast.
Breakfast. Well what can I say! It’s certainly not our kind of environment so be careful and selective where you sit. For some reason they allow you to go and have breakfast in your Spa gowns, so if your the kind that likes to sit near others who have open gowns and spread eagled legs then go for it, but it’s not our cup of tea at 9:00am in the morning.
The check out process: Well we are well seasoned travellers but this is not one that I have ever comes
across. It goes like this:
“Can I help your sir?
Yes I would like to check out please.
Certainly. Did you have a pleasant stay with us?
No it was absolutely horrible and we didn’t enjoy it’
Now at this point,you would, or I certainly would have expected him to have said. “Oh I’m so sorry to hear that, what didn’t you enjoy, or is there anything you would like to raise with us!
Nothing of the kind the response was simply “oh ok let me get you, your invoice for you’
Buyer beware, it might on the face of it be advertised as good vfm, but you pay for what you get and on this occasion we got very little and an unpleasant experience for our money.
Having seen your response please don’t tell lies, it does not and will not do your business any good. Take the constructive criticism, re- train your check out staff or sink.
4 december 2024
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