Florida Haus am Strand

Victoria's location is terrific, though Boltenhagen is small enough that just about anywhere is well placed. Don't let them tell you the location alone explains the price. We paid €731 for five nights in a 22-square-meter apartment, the most expensive rental we've ever had, and they didn't even provide toilet paper. My husband has booked vacation apartments around Europe for 28 years, and we've mostly chosen apartments over hotels for the more than six years we've been together. We travel 6-10 times a year. I'll never use Boltenhagener Apartment und Immobilien Service gmbh again. They seem to run many rentals in this idyllic town, which I'd like to visit again, so I'll be careful to avoid places managed by them. We saw larger rentals advertised around town with full kitchens for much less. We compared peak season with peak season, not Victoria's peak rates with other places' low-season prices, as the woman my husband complained to insultingly suggested. The apartment itself was cramped and poorly thought out. There were tables without drawers and so many unattractive decorations that there was almost nowhere to put our belongings. The person who furnished it seemed to have rushed through the job. There wasn't even a kitchen light. The beds were incredibly soft, like the cheapest ones a furniture store could sell, and seemed suitable only for a child's weight. Noise traveled easily from the other apartments, with no apparent insulation. On arrival, the bedroom curtain was missing from the window. Its plastic rod holder was broken, and both the rod and curtain had been shoved into the closet. Mold covered the bathroom window. We then noticed spiderwebs everywhere, in corners and around the furniture and lights. The bedroom smoke alarm was missing, there was a large oil stain beside the stove, and food splatters covered a wooden beam near the counter. I wiped those splatters away easily with a damp cloth. The glass in the door between the bedroom and kitchen looked as though it had never been cleaned. All the utensils, cups, and glasses were dirty, so we had to wash every one before using it. My husband finally got an email through to the property company at the end of our third day. The next morning they called to say someone would come clean later that day. Because of the bad weather, we had planned to stay in and relax, but instead we tidied our things, put valuables in the car, and walked through heavy rain for six hours, expecting to return to a clean apartment. Nobody had come, and there was no explanation. We lost our one day to rest. We've rented a lot of vacation apartments, and this was the first that didn't provide toilet paper. We won't book with this company again.