Cool vacation , we visit there every winter in February, I really like that they have a sauna and Jacuzzi, you can always cook shish kebab or pilaf or whatever you want to cook over a campfire or on a barbecue, the house is very warm, there is a huge table for a large company, 3 floors and + places to relax in the attic , and another thing that was very nice to notice is that it's always very clean!!! I recommend it 100 percent, and the last thing I want to say is that they have a person (responsible) at their base who will always help and show you what will make your vacation much easier, have a happy vacation!!!!)))))
We rented a large house (manor) for 4 days in August 2024. Family: 2 adults, 2 children. The territory is awesome, its access to the water, free saps - it's all great. But, unfortunately, there were many factors that really ruined the trip. One of them is the attitude of the owners of the house themselves...
We are actually simple people, we also have a cottage and a house in the village, we know and understand what nature is. But, hordes of spiders up to 5cm in size, which simply took over the big house, made an unforgettable contribution to this trip.
Of course, we are aware that these spiders are not dangerous...BUT that doesn't change the fact that they are very unpleasant. By definition, children are afraid of them due to their age and rich imagination. It's just because there are an incredible number of them everywhere, everywhere at all. Cobwebs covered every corner, every window, every doorway - and this is no exaggeration. Under the tables, between the legs of the chairs, in the bathrooms, the whole outdoor gazebo in a circle under the roof, an enclosed gazebo is also everywhere. It's especially disgusting, of course, in the evening, when they all get out and crawl. Willy-nilly, on the second day, each of us walked and looked around, I don't say anything about the girls at all. So paranoia and arachnophobia can be easily earned by everyone ((( As a result, instead of resting, I walked around the house 2-3 times a day with a broom and a vacuum cleaner and cleaned cobwebs/ killed spiders, and this is without any exaggerations.
Given that the house is rented to guests, and spiders are easy to get here - you need to monitor this, monitor it constantly and regularly, and handle it regularly.
Now about the house, I understand perfectly well that wear and tear is a natural process, but you also need to work with it. I'll just list what we've encountered.:
- drawers in the rooms do not open, do not close, or slide out and just fall down, which makes it impossible to use them properly.
- cabinets creak terribly
- in the shower room on the second floor, the upper slope falls off at the entrance
- the stove in the kitchen: one stove is basically not working, the rest of the gas is running or not
- the refrigerator is set up strangely, or it needs to be properly defrosted, because it simply freezes food all over the walls (I have several eggs frozen to ice on the door)
- the barbecue grills are all black and dead - either they need to be cleaned regularly, or replaced, or they need to be told that people would come with their own
- our friends came here in the winter of 2023, damaged the wall, of course, they paid for the damage... but they were not eliminated... and all the other guests end up watching them...
- the bridges on the river are very unsafe, the boards are rotten and falling through, I just forbade the children to go out on them.
- the trampoline must be stable and level: it is tilted and the whole body is shaking.
- the playground (swings, slides) is also full of cobwebs and spiders, as a result, the children did not really play there.
- the declared sauna/steam room burned down a year and a half ago, on August 24th it was not even partially restored, we only found out about it upon arrival at the place.
- by the time we checked in, the pool was dirty, only on the 2nd day of our stay it was washed and filled with water, respectively, it did not warm up and we could not swim properly. There are a lot of tools on the market now to keep pools clean and natural throughout the summer season (we have the same pool, and both children and adults swim almost every day in the summer, we know from our experience) - but this is not being done.
Once again, I understand perfectly well the degree of wear and tear due to the fact that there are a lot of people coming and they are different due to weather/natural conditions... It's not an easy task to keep such a house in order, but since it's a business, it's all necessary.
As adults and adequate people who came to rest in the first place, of course, we tried not to attach great importance to all this, but we couldn't help but see it at all)))
Separately, we would like to express our deep gratitude to Yuri (the local gardener/business manager) - he is a wonderful assistant who came to our aid at any moment, did everything that was necessary, prompted, showed us something. At the same time, he remained completely invisible.
I have attached photos of both local magnificent views and wonderful territory, as well as spiders (mostly screenshots from the video, because the video can not be uploaded here, so the quality is so-so)