Good location and good staff

One toilet

100% plastic sheets and bedding. A dive in a hellhole area. Basically like a prison cell. Paid £85 for two days, the streets would have been better. Stank to high heaven of chemicals. About a 25 cheap 'air fresheners' all over the place, in the wardrobe, in the drawers. All over the place. The guy wants a £60 deposit before you can get in... Everything in that room is not worth £60 total. Chipboard furniture with all the edges missing. Lumpy, horrible pillows. And then the sheets again! 100% bargain basement naff naff polyester. It was shocking! Scumbag neighbours too. Smoking weed and shouting and screaming at each other in their outside social club right below my window. DO NOT BUY INTO ALL THE FAKE REVIEWS. LOOK ELSEWHERE. YOU WILL REGRET COMING HERE AS I DO. ABSOLUTE RIP OFF PRICE. STILL CAN'T BELIEVE I PUT NEARLY A TON IN HIS POCKET.

Our host Michael was exceptionally friendly and made us feel at home. Even offered to cook us food! The bathroom is equipped with plenty of toiletries incase you forget any of your own.

Good location

Fish smell inside the house. Disgusting. Not value for money.

Location to City centre

It was ok

Would definitely recommend to anyone who wish to find a lovely home stay in Manchester. The landlord is the kindest and nicest ones you can expect. It was the first time I was on a solo trip to watch a concert in another city and I arrived there so late in the night, the landlord was home and received me warmly even it’s already like 1am. I was grateful and impressed and would recommend to any visitors.

They are really warm and fortunately I had nice share mates too! Thank you xx

Throughout our stay with Michael at Splendid 4 Bedroom accommodation we have had many issues with his conduct, manner and hosting. The first night of our stay my partner and I treated ourselves to a wee at-home pamper evening and a movie. We had a quick shower and spent some time doing facials and masks in the lounge with a metal bowl I found in the kitchen to rinse out my own personal flannel. We then did a quick foot scrub before a massage (very lush, I know!). Michael came in and had a quick laugh and chat with us saying he hoped I was getting paid for this! All was well. I woke up in the morning to a lengthy, dramatic and horrified message from Michael regarding our using a food bowl to wash our feet, accusing us of being unhygienic and humiliating. I was appalled and offended by this message, however I apologized and assured him that we had showered beforehand and cleaned the bowl thoroughly, not the it even touched our feet but only my own flannel. We tried to move on after this incident but were immediately uncomfortable and on edge with this man. Michael was constantly around, he was constantly making loud phone calls late into the night and keeping Sam awake who gets up at 5:30am for the gym most mornings. One of Michael’s long list of house rules was no noise after 10pm which he never adhered to himself!! I bought a drying rack and came home to Michael sprawled across the couch in pyjamas and slippers and immediately felt like I was not welcome in the space. I asked to put the drying rack in the lounge (there was ample space for a round three drying racks behind the couch) and he had said no, I should put it up on the landing. This landing for the three upstairs room was about 1m squared if that and there was no way even then tall, thin drying rack I bought from Argos would have fit. I asked him to show me where he would like it and he came up to help me shove this drying rack in between about 20cms between a fridge and the stairs banisters.

We both tried to shove it in, turning it around to fit and it ended up only standing because of how it was wedged in there so tight. I barely managed to get our wash spread out on it which then took several days to dry and broke the rack He threatened to kick us all out due to power and energy costs, that he doesn’t care if we have no where else to go, he doesn’t care if we’ve already paid, the power has significantly gone up and he wants us out. Keep in mind he is constantly there, my partner leaves around 5:30am for the gym, showers for the gym and doesn’t get home from work until 6pm where he eats dinner and generally goes to bed and would only adjust the heat at night on particularly cold evenings and I only spent 3 weeks there out of the 6 week we paid for 2 people. About 10pm that night Sam and I hear loud yelling. He is inconsolable and having a total tantrum. We are trying to figure out if anyone is down there with him and what he may be annoyed about. We eventually figure out that he is on the phone and continues this very loud yelling for maybe 20 minutes, half an hour and we eventually figure out it is because someone used his bowl… A very small issue - he messaged me to make sure I lock both inner and external doors on my way out even though both himself (loudly on the phone in his office) and Kat (in the lounge) were still home. I see it as unnecessary, but those are his rules, fair enough, I will comply. But the constant threat, worry and living on edge that we may get messaged from him about goodness knows what we do wrong in his eyes is just awful. Aside from all of this discomfort, walking on egg shells, accusations, rudeness and horrendous behaviour from our host, we also had a constantly freezing room, we had thin and cheap bedding, we slept directly on springs on our awful mattress and had barely any room for two people to move around in that room. Michael is a horrendous host, a nasty, rude man.