Il Sole Blu

Good location, smells of sewage

We arrived on a Sunday afternoon and rang the manager as there was no answer from the bell. He told us to wait outside, which we did. Half an hour later a woman walks up the road and opens the door without a word she waited inside the door for us then silently walked up to our room. She opened the door and turned and walked back out without saying anything. Not a good start.
The hall of the building smelt of raw sewage and the room smelled worse.
There was a "balcony" about 4 foot wide and 6 foot long which looked onto another building. The room was spacious but was always dark as the room was towered over by buildings.
The next morning the manager rang looking for his money, he gave me 7 slips of paper with his initials on them which he explained were breakfast tokens to eat in the nearby cafe. He took the money and that was the last I saw (Not heard) from him.

The breakfast cafe was an experience... The place was full of people who were more than happy to stare at us while we drank our espresso and chewed on our cardboard croissants while the noisy slot machines in the corner digested coins at an alarming rate from the pocket of the resident gamblers.

We were the only guests staying on the corridor that is Il Sol Blu until about Thursday. Then we found that the walls were paper thin and that our bedroom was right next to their toilet (I'll leave that to your imagination). We went to bed early on the Thursday night only to receive a phone call from the manager AT 3AM to tell me that the other guests were locked out and I would have to open the door for them. When I opened the door I recognised one of the guests to be the man who served us our cardboard croissants in the cafe around the corner.

Unique Quality: The location of the sewage-treatment plant that is this B&B is just fine, close to everything but it's just not worth it. If it was a quarter of the price I was charged than it wouldn't be worth it.

Don't say you weren't warned.......