Freeport accommodation from NZ$136

The breakfast was excellent. The place was clean. And the staff was very helpful.

The hotel is the midst of an upgrade which is great, but right now it is a mess. The carpet in the hall was covered in stains, including paint, while the floor in the entryway and bathroom in our room also had (dried) paint drippings, and white paint all around the brown trim of the bathroom door. Building supplies were stacked in various corners of the hotel. We could live with this, but not at the price charged. More worrying, one of the doors to the back parking lot opened when coming into the building, but did not open at all from the inside going out. Surely this is a serious emergency hazard. We informed staff, and later there was a note on the door stating it was out of order. The door leading to the stairwell with next nearest exit had a warning: "do not enter - construction," but clearly we had to use it anyway. Maybe all that will be fixed at some point, but we won't be staying again. And not something that's likely to be fixable: the toilet in our room was too close to the bathroom door, so we had to throw a shoulder into the door to get it unstuck from the toilet. And a stain on the window like someone had sneezed on it. And the chair was in sad shape. And wires hanging out of walls.

The room had only sheers covering the window. No privacy at night. There was also a bright light shining up to show the building that made it impossible to have a dark room (even with a blanket drapes across it!). The walls are thin (I could hear the room next door snoring). The internet connection is open (no security) and poor. It worked for only a few hours of the afternoon of the whole me stay (no bad weather to blame it on, beautiful day). The TV remote wouldn't turn on the TV. The hot tub keys were weak and not very many of them. The staff was great!