Rock and Bowl Motel

This is over a very noisy music venue, with loud music weekends and often through the week so loud the building shakes, so earplugs don’t work. Bathrooms dirty, half of them closed. Weekends full of drunken parties. Most of customers are long term workers so not friendly. Staff ok but don’t know anything and often don’t care. wifi often doesn’t work. Petty thefts, area not safe at night.

The Rock and Bowl Motel sounded pretty nice on the website– Brand Spanking New; spacious, wifi and breakkie– what more can a girl want for a weekend away with some uni mates?
Well apparently a heck of a lot more– since we essentially stayed in a construction site. Couldn’t find wifi connection and no promised tea to nurse our hangovers. They were also double booked and the people who worked there all said conflicting things and were entirely disinterested in the hostel. Apparently a staff member also unlocked our room and came INTO OUR ROOM at 3:30am in the morning (I’ve passed out but the 4 other people in the room noticed, so I am kinda taking their word for it as 4 people can’t hallucinate about the same thing)
They kindly gave us 2 hours of free Karaōke for completely messing up our booking which was much appreciated. But putting us in a room with no bedding, then getting us to strip our own beds just doesn’t justify paying 20 quid.
I’ll be staying at the YHA next time– at least I know they will probably a) know what they are doing; b) not lie about their product; c) not come into our room uninvited at an ungodly hour.