Lakefront Apartments,18 LAKE ESPLANADE ROAD

- Location, close to town - Friendly staff - Flexibility with early check in and late check out - Spacious - Two toilets, huge bathroom - washing machine to do your washing, with two powders included

- Two bedrooms are downstairs, would be nice if it was one level - the dryer option on the washing machine takes a while to actually dry. And unfortunately it didn't dry our clothes - would be nice if there was a airfreshner in the place, as there's a strong smell there that was low key giving us a headache

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The location is excellent. Les then 5 minutes to restaurants and tourist attraction. Check in was easy. Heating was good. A full kitchen.

The apartment needs work to make it acceptable as a four star accommodation. It's probably less than 3 star at the moment. It wasn't clean and there was a bad smell when we first entered. Broken knobs and holders. Wires sticking out of the wall. Old and tired furniture needs replacing. I wish I had read the other reviews before I booked.

The view from the property balcony was beautiful and it was about a 5-10min walk in to the main town area.

The kitchen and bedrooms were clean enough. However the bathroom was filthy. There were cracks and large dents/holes in the walls and along the bottom of the floor through the whole house. The actual bath/shower was very dirty and grotty and old. There was dust all throughout all the floors of the house and in the cupboards and near the washing machine was a big empty area piled with dust and old furniture/tools for the house. The host at front desk was not very welcoming, too busy on his phone and not much decent customer service. Lastly, parking around the back is incredibly difficult especially for foreigners. It is a very steep and narrow driveway to get through.

The view was incredible

The apartment was quite run down with obvious maintenance issues e.g curtain hooks broken and sagging curtains. The apartment was also really dirty with mould in the shower, large stains on the carpet and walls, fingerprints and smears on the dining table and coffee table tops and coffee drips on the kitchen floor. In the single room the heater didn't work and there was no electric blanket on the queen bed. The oven tray provided was too big to fit in the oven and was dirty. The booking.com site references daily servicing but they just dropped off a pile of towels and didn't do anything else.

So nice to have a view and 5 minute walk to the town was great

Needs a little love, bit of paint maybe even a nice comfy couch or upgrade the decor bedding and things just to keep up with the price, it’s not the cheapest but ok