Cosy Merseyside Retreat

The location

The parking was taken up by other people. The handle on the door to the lounge immediately fell off and narrowly missed my daughter's foot (the "cleaner" must have been aware, and my daughter had just removed her shoes in the hall), and the bathroom lock was broken. It was not really clean as I found it really dusty on the carpet (with packets and a piece of gum under the bed), and the oven glove was coated in food. We had searched on booking.com for 5 people (2 adults, 3 teens), and this place came up as an option, so I assumed, wrongly in this case, that the sofa was a sofabed. There was no option for a 5th person except a small double sofa (by the way, this is in the photos, and it really is the only seating throughout the whole apartment). I should have made another check, but I thought apartments unsuitable for 5 people would be filtered out of searches. The apartment was also unsuitable for any more than 2 people! This is evidenced by the fact that only 2 bowls and 4 plates were provided, a 2 seater sofa and no table or chairs were provided (yet there was ample room for this). I'm not one to write long rambling reviews (excluding this one), and not unfair ones either, but this was one of the worst places I have found on booking.com. It did not live up to the rating or reviews I read - maybe they were small groups and someone damaged the property before us - but the owner should be aware that the damage and problems need to be fixed, find a new cleaner, before taking on more bookings and fix how he's appearing on the occupancy options on the app.

Would highly benefit from another chair or small sofa in the lounge area as if there are 4 of you staying there are only 3 seats at a stretch on the 1 sofa , everything was brilliant

Cosy and modern interior with everything we needed for the couple of days.

The apartment is extremely well insulated so that the apartment got really hot, almost unbearable. This made falling asleep really challenging despite open windows. Not sure if it could be considered to have some fans for the summer months? Also, it would be helpful to have a little door wedge for the living room/kitchen door to keep open and aid air flow.

clean and comfortable

staircase made it hard for us with big luggage

Great location and great apartment.