Ocean Manor Beach Resort Private Condominium Apartment in Fort Lauderdale

Don't rent this property

Elena (Canton)
Review submitted: January 19, 2012   Date of arrival: December 25, 2011

This apartment was dirty and had an odor…I have never seen anything like it in my life. We arrived on Christmas day (2011) and when the owner opened the door, a very strong, bad odor hit us. The carpet was dirty with stains throughout the whole apartment and looked like it had been there for at least 50 years and nobody cleaned it. The two sofas that they had in the living room were made out of black leather (or imitation) so you can’t see almost anything, but it was sticky and old. One of those sofas was a pull-out sofa bed, but the mattress was so old and uncomfortable that nobody could sleep on it. The pillow cases were not cleaned, they had stains all over, and so we asked the owner to give us some clean ones. We also asked for additional blankets because the ones that were available for us were stained all over and had cigarette holes in them. The new blankets given to us were no better than the first. We calmly and respectively tried to talk to the owner which was a man and all he did was yell at us. He completely ignored our concerns and blamed us for the whole situation. The owner was unprofessional, rude, and was no help at all. The lady owner never showed up to meet with us. Anyway, after we talked to the owner (as he screamed at my daughter), we went out to eat because we were hungry, and when we came back, we noticed that some cleaning was done and the smell was not that bad anymore. The ventilation system in the bathroom was not working at all, so all of the smell and the steam from there came inside of the apartment. In return, all of our clothes got a bad smell from the apartment. As I mentioned before, sleeping was a problem because there was no way somebody could sleep on that pull-out sofa. So, we let our daughters (15 and 22) sleep in the bedroom and I slept on the couch and my husband slept on a foldable twin bed that he found in the closet. The hotel itself is an old one, so don’t expect too much. The swimming pool was not heated and somebody told me that the heating system was broken. Every time we sat by the pool there was an annoying and extremely loud sound so relaxing was something hard to do, even by the pool. The bar and the food were OK but very expensive. A mixed drink was $11. The internet in the room was not working all of the time; the hair dryer was not working…. We were lucky to have beautiful weather, so we spent most of the time outside.

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