Submitted by: A Travel Library User - From: United Kingdom
Type of Traveller: Weekend Breaker - Age Group: 31 - 40
Don't be fooled by the website
We booked this so called 4 star hotel for a lovely weekend away. The photographs on their website and on many more sites made the hotel look fantastic. So we booked it. A two night stay with a double room overlooking the sea for £169 per night. Well for this price, we thought this would be a nice luxury stay. BIG MISTAKE.
As we drove into Brighton and passing the hotel it looked nothing like the lovely lit up photographs on the web. The windows were damp and the building was very run down. Well we thought maybe it just needed a bit of repair, obviously being on Brighton sea front it would get hammered by the sea and wind. So we parked up and headed on down the road with our cases.
We arrived at the reception desk where they had the Birdy song playing really loud. OK now we were worried. We asked to see the room before signing anything and were told that we could take the lift to the third floor. When eventually the lift arrived we could not believe our eyes. The lift wa...Read more
