“Disappointing, however …
On arriving at the car park for our apartment after a nearly 8 hour journey, we were dismayed to find our allocated car park space was very awkward to park into, having to park in sideways, on a slope, with a link chain along one side of our spot making it hard to open the passenger side door, and there wasn’t much room to get out of the driver’s door because of the wall next to it.”
On opening the hatchback to take our luggage out, the low ceiling meant we bumped the hatchback against it, causing us to try and protect it by holding a rug over it while we removed our luggage.
We have stayed at 2 other apartments at Peninsula Apartments over the past 2 years – Oceania and Abalone, so we were now to compare Peninsula 2 with those 2.
It’s sad to say that our first impressions were disappointing. The first bedroom we saw was the smaller one, there was no view out of the window (unlike the other 2 we’ve stayed at in which both had lovely sea views out of the smaller bedrooms) – it was just looking out onto a high fence and back path. There were twin beds but in the “brochure” it said both super-king size (zip/link can be twin on request”) – (it says for both bedrooms). So, as we wanted a super-king size bed we hadn’t contacted them as we assumed we wouldn’t need to. We felt that this bedroom and the bathroom was just “basic” – no “wow factor”. Moving into the kitchen/dining
/lounge areas we saw our Welcome Pack on the table – a bag containing a few sachets of coffee, tea and sugar, a small bag of chocolate drops, and a couple of leaflets on St. Ives. At the other apartments the welcome packs had contained lovely Cornish apple juice and a box of Cornish biscuits (as well as the chocolate drops) – so another disappointment. No Alexa, no safe, no visitors book, and the extractor fan in the en suite bathroom wasn’t working; the coat hangers in the wardrobes were very difficult to use, I was glad I took some of my own as I only managed to get one coat hanger off the hook on the rail, but then I couldn’t get it back on again! (The other apartments we’d stayed in had an Alexa, a safe and visitors book and useable coat hangers – so we had expected the same at this one.) Also, there were no little complementary toiletries or reed diffusers to make the bathrooms smell nice in either bathroom – unlike the 2 apartments we have previously stayed at.
So, sadly, lots of disappointments for our first impression and after a long journey.
However, the views out of the lounge and main bedroom were beautiful overlooking the beach and the garden, where we sunbathed a few times, The garden, we felt, was the best part of the apartment! It is a decent size with 2 comfortable sun beds, a swinging chair, table and chairs on the decking and a big storage box with the cushions for the outdoor furniture. The sun was on the garden all day until about 5 pm when it went behind the building.
The main bedroom was lovely, including a super-king size bed which was so comfortable and warm, the duvet was warm and luxurious and pillows very comfortable.
We couldn’t get hold of the Sykes Cottage (Carbis Bay Holidays) contact until Monday as they were closed over the weekend. We rang Monday to report the twin beds, the broken extractor fan and no visitors book. We were told by the office that someone would ring us back. We had gone out for the day to the Lizard Point and Kynance Cove – while we were out a lady from “Housekeeping” rang us back on our mobile phone. She suggested giving us the pin number so we could unlock the laundry cupboard and make the bed up ourselves, but we asked her to send someone to do it for us. When we returned to the apartment that evening the twin beds had been made up into one big bed, but the bed was uncomfortable as you could feel the edges of the twin beds in the middle. We felt maybe some sort of mattress topper should have been put over the base to make it more comfortable. The extractor fan had been mended, but still no sign of a visitors book although it asks in the starter pack to leave comments in it.
We had a lovely holiday and we liked the layout of the kitchen/dining/lounge areas – each being “sectioned off” a bit so it was like having 3 rooms although it is one long open plan room, so we found it cosy. Also liked the big breakfast bar between the kitchen and dining area which was a very useful worktop.
The apartment building is in a prime location and we did love the garden and the views over the beach, and the main bedroom was good with a lovely, comfortable bed with a lovely garden and sea view, but, sadly, we were disappointed by a few things, especially as we had stayed at the other 2 apartments in this building before, so we couldn’t help but compare them.