Before arriving in Galway, I had always connected the city with a lovely, dreamy and heavenly atmosphere.
I have to say, my stay at this B&B spoilt it all.
Having made the mistake of not reserving a B&B beforehand, I arrived in Galway to find that most accommodation was fully booked, despite it being a mid-October Saturday.

The only place with one free room was this one.
I still remember the strong odour in the air, which wasn't necessarily a smell, but a strong, overly sweet fragrance of something of which furniture, bed sheets , carpets were soaked. Like a cheap quality room odorizer.

Shower - in the "en suite" bathroom - was nothing but a tap hanging from the ceiling with a hole on the floor. Once finished, all the toilet was wet, including the toilet paper which was unusable. So nice to have a shower whilst you can hear the water dripping down from your elbows into the toilet!!

Milk for the tea (the one in the little sealed containers)- had gone past its expiry date for about a month.

Hairdryer - a bad brown model from the early 70's, wasn't working as the plug was all smashed.

Breakfast - after seing a huge tray full of dry and overcooked bacon slices waiting to be served to guests, which seemed to have been cooked a month before, I lost all my appetite.

Payment - upfront, before seeing the room. 50 euros for that small room with the shower above the WC and a hole on the floor.

Hor - ri - ble.

Don't go there. Rather sleep in the car and have a shower in the public toilets (I still have this rancid smell in the house haunting me)

The Bed & Breakfast was not what had been advertised at all. The landlady said to us that we were not staying in the house but down the back in apartments. Did not mind that as i was going down i knew i had stayed here years ago and they where fine.

When we landed in the room it was full of damp all black stuff up on the walls and even on the white curtains it was obviously empty all winter with no heat and she never botherd to freshen it up and down behind the bed was all black where she had pulled the bed out from the wall.

We decided to forget about the room for a few hours and headed out for dinner as it was late in the evening and we had no choice but to take it, but that night the room was stinking we had to keep window open all night.

We were up at 9.00 the next morning and my fiancee went into the landlady and told her he wasnt giving her 90 euro for the room that it was filthy and dirty and not what was advertised.

She was very unpleasant and said that if we had a problem with the room we should have told her before this and that she gave no discounts there.

He said that if she came with her he had no problem in showing her the dirt in the room. I told my fiancee that there was no point in arguing with her as she had my credit card number and she would probably take it out of there.

So if anyone is thinking of staying here don't, you have been warned, I wish I had read the reviews on Tripadvisor before I headed there.

Our room was overlooking the lake which was nice but it obviously had not been maintined as it smelt of mould and you could clearly see mould growing on the walls.

Breakfast was served fine the first day and the next we arrived at 9.50am (breakfast served until 10am) and we were greeted with an extremley rude member of staff irrately tapping her wrist indicating we were too late. I asked if there was a problem to be told there was 10 people waiting for their breakfast already and we would have to wait 40 minutes for ours. No offer of cereal or toast which we would have gladly accepted under the circumstances.

Overall, extremley rude staff and very basic accomadation, would not recommend to anyone.

definitely would not return to this b&b. Breakfast service was terrible, one person who came for breakfast at one minute before breakfast ended was refused. staff were unfriendly and the bathroom was filthy. only positive point was it was convenient to the city centre. definitely would not recommend. i just had to write a review to warn other staying visitors to beautiful galway..