I was personally so excited for this trip to Belfast because this home looked so chic and spacious enough for me and my friends. Unfortunately we had a terrible experience because of plumbing issues. We traveled from Washington DC to Dublin then drove up to this place in Belfast, we dropped our stuff and ran downtown to eat. Once we got back, it had been almost a 12 hour travel day. We all wanted to go shower off and go to sleep around 10:30 PM, so I went first. While I was showering the fire alarms started going off, and I thought it was the steam from the shower, so I jumped out of the shower and threw open the window. About a minute later, my friend was banging on the door saying turn off the shower because it is pouring out of the fire alarm downstairs. After putting my head under the sink faucet to get the remainder of the soap out of my hair, I ran downstairs and saw horrible water stains where the shower was, around all of the Can lights, the fire alarm, and around the ceiling. I tried to get in contact with the owner, but it was super late at night, so I can understand why she probably didn’t see my 5 calls. So I was on the phone with VRBO for two hours, and sent them photos of everything in this home including things not related to the water damage. The owner offered to book us in another one of their properties but I booked a hotel instead. I hate leaving bad reviews but this was my first instant hotel booking, and it will most likely be my last. My friends were unable to shower, we all had to take sink baths, so we had to have the grime of travel follow us all the way to Giant’s Causeway that day. There was some other damage that I think should’ve been easy for even a small-time handy man to upkeep but it was not done. We also were unable to get an Uber/ride share in this area. I also debated writing this review(because I know things happen), but I do not want someone else to have to jump out of a shower butt naked and try to open a window to find out it’s water pouring through a fire alarm and not caused by steam! The owner did refund for the second night when I asked her too.
