Dommage! It could have been such a perfect place to stay but although Laura was lovely and helpful at first -hearsay as I only got to meet her on Sunday morning at 8.45am in my nighty coming of the bathroom- she was less than friendly when we left.
We stayed at her bed & breakfast -which is more a flat than a b&b hence the problems with her- for a weekend in November and as there was 9 of us travelling to Rome we were delighted to find some kind of appartment where we could all stay and have all commodities at hand. BUT the windows were not double glased meaning that it was next to impossible to have a good night sleep without ear plugs, breakfast was well presented and dished out onto separate shelves but no bread, nothing fresh, already opened marmalade single jar for 9 people, the chocolate powder box nearly empty, no fruit, no yogurt and stale biscuits.
We were reminded to leave at 10am on Sunday morning and Laura turned up on that morning at 8.45am, scared me when I found her in the b&b, coming out of the shower, started cleaning the minuscule kitchen where I was trying to prepare some kind of breakfast and putting things away everywhere in the flat but the bedrooms.
Finding it slightly weird that she didn't wait after we'd left I asked her whether as she was there we could have some marmalade and chocolate and she went out to do some grocery shopping coming back with said groceries and 4 people who were clearly her next guests.
Fair enough as we are in a Bbed& breakfast as she stressed it several times but as the b&b is laid out as a flat, we were all in our nighties in front of perfect strangers who didn't budge when we tried to squeeze through to the bathroom, used the said bathrooms etc etc and stayed there for a good 1/2 hour in our way when we were trying to speed things up to leave at 10am.
We told Laura that we found it unacceptable that she didn't say a word about people arriving that early in the more than crowded bbed & breakfast already. She would not listen to us reminding us that this was her property and that this was a bed & breakfast where we rent the rooms only and not a holiday house (she'd clearly used that argument before with other guests); other guests may arrive whenever they want and use kitchen/bathroom/computer etc. Needless to say that she refused point blank to let us leave our luggage til 12pm.
We had a wonderful time in Rome, fell in love with the city and its people that we met and were all so helpful and friendly. We even thought we could all come back and spend a whole week at Laura's bed & breaksfast but because of her attitude needless to say that this will not be the case ever again.
