Koder House

The accommodation impresses with its prime location, stunning ocean views, and friendly, attentive staff. Guests praise spacious rooms but criticize the lackluster breakfast and food quality.

I write this review with great sadness, because it should have been an amazing stay, but it wasn’t. Firstly the building is a lovely heritage building, and the rooms are enormous. On first arrival it was quite awesome, but you didn’t have to look far for the issues. Yes the building is worn and yes, it needs better maintenance but that could be forgiven except for some niggles which became big issues, as our stay progressed. The doors and windows do not fit correctly and consequently, there is a great deal of noise. First from outside ***** the busy street, but also from the bar area downstairs, which usually lasts 5 or 6 hours until closing around 22.30. Also we could hear the conversations from the room above, so did not feel very private, and finally, so wide is the gap on the bedroom door (you can actually view the bed through it!), rather than fix that, there is a saloon style door over the door to try and cover it up… Breakfast was an absolute shambles, to the point that on day 2 we told them what the problem was, and said we would eat out from now on. The WiFi is very intermittent, as was the hot water. The staff are lovely and so sweet, and that’s why I feel bad writing this, but feeling bad won’t make a jot of difference! In the end we curtailed our booked stay of 5 nights and moved hotels after 3 nights.

Worst stay ever. Dirty linens. Only bedspreads were provided, no blankets. Rooms are preoccupied by cockroaches and mosquitoes. No in-house restaurant. Food was served cold which was sourced from outside. Management was extremely rude. Especially the so called “supervisor”. Stay away from this property to save your time and mental peace.