This review was submitted before 2018 and has not been verified.
2/10 Terrible
Valerie H.
6 Sept 2017
Nice location but ...
The owner’s response to my review of the apartment in St Pargoire is most illuminating. Point by point, my positive comment in the visitors’ book stands to all as a clear demonstration, however insincere, of my continued effort to diffuse a difficult situation.
The unpleasant personal rating bestowed upon us cannot be regarded as objective in the absence of a single example in justification, unlike my own observations, supported by honestly recorded instances of the owner’s mother’s conduct. In respect of the owner’s claim that the pool filtration plant is inaudible (“except to you”), I feel compelled to ask why does he think that the matter was ever raised and to advise him that by reference to the visitors’ book he will see that we are not the first to raise the issue. The apology for the narrowness of the local roads, inferring falsely that we had found fault with them, is pure obfustication. Over forty or fifty years of holidays in France we have become familiar with village driving conditions and given that we were using a small sports coupe, there were absolutely no concerns. Further obfustication is provided with the inference that we had complained of the noise from the village fete. The truth is that following another sleepless night due entirely to the noise from the pool filtration machinery, I asked the owner’s mother for the second time if anything could be done about it. Surprisingly she insisted that the noise was not from the filtration equipment but solely from the village fete. This was the occasion, referred to in my original review, on which she became personally abusive.
The owner refers to my “erratic behaviour” in attempting to excuse his mother, yet he can provide no example in validation of this criticism. Further, since he was not present at any time during the whole period in question his apparent knowledge of all considered events must be regarded as unoriginal and therefore unsound.
