The toilet was blocked and the boat stank terribly. We couldn’t use one of the bedrooms for four days. There was a huge row with the owner…
Despite being fairly new, the boat was in poor condition. Railings were broken, cupboard doors had been glued back together. The glued section broke off and he’s now trying to pass the cost on to us… and now he can’t glue it back on but needs a new door fitted, and he says we should have taken out insurance.
He keeps asking for photos of everything that’s broken, which you have to send throughout the week because there’s no proper check-in or check-out. At the end, he’ll grumble that he’s been dealing with us all week
The boat was refuelled by a fraudulent refuelling lorry… one tank, where I watched the meter, took 45 litres; the other tank, where we didn’t watch the meter, took 107 litres… So we rang the base manager, who’s been forced upon us, but he’s not going to sort anything out. The lads from the refuelling lorries just say to pay up, whilst charging 2.4 per litre – which is also 15 cents more than usual in the harbour. 367 euros for diesel – that’s 3.5 times as much as we normally pay.
I would definitely advise against this base and the charters, and personally, I wouldn’t work with them again.