Sitting here in our ££ holiday cottage in overpriced seaside down/honeypot/theme park set up to fleece tourists* and coming to the end of our week where we have been plagued by ants. We noticed them the first morning and reported it and to give the letting agent their credit they were prompt in dropping ant traps round etc etc but we have been plagued night and day with ants all over the kitchen and dining area.
We have had to eat out for almost every meal because even having scrubbed the kitchen, wall and floors the ants keep coming back and it’s disgusting to be eating with ants wandering round. We even resorted to tcp as it was all I could find in the cottage so the place now stinks.
In addition, the place is very tired now with peeling paint and plaster crumbling, random stains on walls, kitchen cabinets, and something that looks like blood on one windowsill.
The rental company are taking the position that the contract is with the owners and that it’s not their problem. It’s really ruined the holiday for us, it’s been so stressful. I’m not talking one or two ants, I’m talking hundreds, multiple times a day.
I’d really like a partial refund, but it doesn’t seem likely. And most of all I’d just like to be at home. Which is a shame because it’s actually a really lovely cottage, or was one once before it became run down.
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