Silver Mist Guest House

When we arrived at reception we were not welcomed or explained about anything at the guest house.  We were just given our key and indicated where to go.  When we got to our room, the mirror was cracked and it had a terrible musty smell.  I went back to reception and asked them for another room, which they gave to us and was a bit better.  I also had to ask the detail about the breakfast time, dinner times, facilities, etc. as there was nothing explaining it in the room.  The linen had a hole in, the shower door was broken, not once during our stay was the room cleaned, the mattress was filthy, and on the Sunday at 5 o'clock one of the workers spoke at the top of his voice outside our window, resulting in us leaving one day sooner.  The manager said she would give us a discount, but in the end we paid the R900.00 deposit and then another R600.00 for the two days we stayed.  In essence, we should, without the discount only have paid R1200.00 and not the R1500.00 we did.  We have stayed at guest houses all over the world and this was one of the worse experiences.  Luckily we found another delightful place in the area, that made up for the bad experience.

Beautiful setting, lovely buildings and lots of atmosphere.