The Smugglers Retreat

Great sea view and comfy beds

Pleasant view.

The kitchen was odorous as was the apartment, really unpleasant.

Fabulous location and views. Overall clean and welcoming

There were no instructions for the oven and we could not get the oven to heat, only the grill part. Also no instructions for coffee maker and lacked little things like lamp in dining area, mirrors in bedrooms and we disliked the bedding as it was not cotton. If we return again we will bring our own bed linen!

The sea view.

This place reminds me of what I would consider a HMO being like. It was dirty and so overpriced. On arrival you are greeted with a shabby facade of tired paintwork and cheap fixtures and fittings. When you get to the flat and shut the door behind you is a hole in the wall that from previous reviews has been there a while. The bedrooms are not like in the pictures of bright clean rooms, they have old devan beds with nylon covers and old worn out mattresses, the view was something else. The bathroom taps are all backwards so if you turn them off as normal you accidentally turn the pressure up and soak the bathroom. The bath handle was on the top of the cupboard. The tiles in the hall are cracked and tired, the useful washing machine in the kitchen pictures was not there, cupboard doors were really grubby loose tap,dirty oven,minging bin, the kitchen needed a good clean as mentioned before in other reviews. The living room windows are dirty inside and out, door just old with brocken seals, long black hairs on the curtains and bed. Settees old and uncomfortable as in previous reviews. The photos on the website have so been photoshopped. The balcony is damaged and needs redecorating like the furniture. The property book is less than useless as there is no information on rubbish, recycling, how to turn the heating off. Did have an item at the end about drug abuse not been tolerated. The music noise at 1am kept us awake quite a few nights. It's a really good job they took the £1350 for a weeks stay fee six weeks before we stopped as I would have stayed at the hotel next door for £100 a night. They could offer a residence parking permit but no you have to pay the underground car park charges on top of their massive rental fee. I would not normally leave such a bad review but this deserves one. Just a shame I can't upload more photos I took 25. Shocking.We left early as could not spend another night there.

beautiful views and great location. Lovely apartment with nice little touches such as the biscuits and cereals they left in the kitchen for us.

balcony had a towel on the floor and it could do with a really good clean

The location was excellent with nice views out to sea. Everything (incl railway station) is just a short walk away, Paid for a week's parking at the underground carpark opposite and we could have got away with not using the car at all during our week's stay.

A few things were broken when we arrived (sideboard door, chair seat); the Nespresso machine settings did not work so you had to keep button pressed for the required length of poor. The shower had a mind of its own. The oven temperature was not correct. Only 4 mugs, so we were constantly washing up. No coffee cups to use with the Nespresso machine.