For years I’ve wanted to stay at the Bridge Street Cottages - they look so cute and quaint from the outside.
The stars finally aligned, so we made the five hour trip to stay here for ONE night.
We arrive and there is nobody working in the office, I get a cryptic text from a random number of a code for the door. At this point, I’m thinking OK fine a lot of places are moving to this model of contactless check-in. That’s fine. We walk in, and it’s almost like walking into a Holiday Inn. Like you know those big plastic showers that they all have - that’s what these cottages have. I was really surprised because they’re extremely expensive rooms with very very basic amenities.
But at this point, I’m still like OK that’s fine. It’s not as nice as I thought it was but it’s still pretty cute and we can make this work and I’m just glad to be here.
Then the people on the adjoining wall partied until 4:30am. The walls are paper thin. There’s no front desk to call to do a quiet hour check up. So finally, I think maybe I’ll text that cryptic number and just ask if they can do something because it’s now 3 AM, and there’s no sleep to be had. I get a text back an hour later, “there’s nothing I can do”. I’ve never stayed anywhere where there weren’t quite hour rules - where either at the hotel security or front desk worker wouldn’t either call the room or do a door knock to force quiet hours.
Between the thin walls and the low amenities and lack of care, definitely pick somewhere else.
