Flaxton-Luxurious Home near NEC, BHX

It was spotlessly clean, warm, and the sofas and beds were comfortable. It wasn't expensive. It was close to the NEC and airport (UBER costs ranged between £5 and £10). A tip - if going to the NEC or airport, it's easier and cheaper to get dropped off at the railway station drop off point. You just go up the escalator then it's a short walk through a covered walkway to the NEC, or a short monorail ride to the airport.

It's far from luxurious. There's exposed pipework that should be boxed in (look in the corner of the living room photograph for just one example), hanging wires and scuffed paintwork, and patches on walls where something has been moved and the area hasn't been painted. When coming downstairs - to visit the bathroom in the middle of the night - there's no internal door so you can be seen from outside through the glass porch. It was frustrating because it would take so little effort and money to really make this much nicer. Box in the pipes. A door or even curtain at the front door would give privacy. Some free takeaway leaflets would give visitors ideas for food delivery. Some salt and pepper sachets. Wine glasses, nicer crockery and cutlery would elevate it. We didn't have a dish cloth but maybe that was just an oversight. We would have happily paid extra for a welcome pack with a bottle of milk, some nice bread, breakfast cereals etc to get us set up. It's also under the flight path for the airport, but that's not something the owner can do much about.

Nothing

Smell. Unsafe plug socket. Dangerous step into kitchen

It was clean.

In a noisy residential area, garden needs a lot of work, maintenance is a issue, holes in walls, bathroom light doesn't work properly, paid for 3 bed house but owner locked 1 room so we only had a 2 bed house, bed was uncomfortable, no wine glasses, no coffee, only 2 towels for 3 people, 2 cups for 3 people, shower drips all night, under the flight path of the airport so noisy. Definitely not luxurious at described.

Host maintained great communication

Get a lockbox

For the price we paid it was a good place to stay for a short weekend. It was clean, had facilities for cleaning and cooking. Landlord was very helpful brining additional hand towels as requested and gave a tour of the property explaining about how to use central heating etc.

It it’s an ok location. The house was very sparse. Take your own towels as there were non provided. Also minimal kitchen items to cook or eat with. Other than that it suited for our needs to attend event at NEC.

I would take a wide pass on this property Never again ..! I would certainly not recommend to a friend if you want to keep them !!! there was no significant features that worked in its favour…. having requested multiple times for an invoice and being informed that we would receive…. one week a half and still no response. While we booked for three rooms, we were informed that two were only available. The third room remain locked …The management of the property is casual at the best…. kind of take it or leave it. The described garden furniture was not there during our stay but the broken down garden shed with the punchbag was hanging in the shed… There to take out your frustrations I guess!!

The property is a terrace house in the middle of housing estate… At lest the house was clean. However it looks like the trades people left in a hurry…before they were finished… skirting boards panelling uncompleted plastering needing to be finished poor standard of work in general ….With one single toilet we had to dealt with the fact that the toilet was in a permanent state of partial blockage taking multiple attempts to flush….. we ended up avoiding its use as much as possible…. thankfully the shower worked well …. although the sink would back up when in use.. The bedrooms were basic but adequate there was some serious structural damage to the doorframe of the front bedroom. This had the effect that you could not closed the door …..frame was out of line… we only required the property as a overnight as we were at the exhibition throughout the day and evening….. happy to be done with it after two nights…

Host was excellent. Good communication & helpful. The property itself needs a little update but for a one night stay it was ok. All amenities provided, except towels. (Kettle,microwave,fridge,freezer,tea,sugar,coffee,iron,hair dryer etc… parking on driveway (big enough for 2 cars), heating was good when we turned it on, hot water good pressure shower. Bathroom downstairs was clean!

Bathroom light didn’t work but host got someone out within 30mins. Bathroom downstairs.