Manou du Lac Annecy

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children

Very Poor
Traveller Type: Business Traveler
  : What should have been a pleasant vacation turned out to be something else. Unfortunately we read the reviews after our stay at Manou du Lac Annecy otherwise we would not went to that place at all. It all starts with the misleading pictures on booking.com. The beautiful pictures of the outside of the house are not of the part of house that you rent, but are pictures of the house in which the owner lives. There are no pictures of the outside part of the house that you rent at all! Also based on the pictures you think that there is a nice stone barbecue for you to use, however this is not the case. You are not allowed. Moreover, in the advertisement is clearly stated private pool However, we had the same unpleasant experience as many of the reviewers. During our stay we were constantly being watched by the owners wife, who lives at the same place. While you are laying at the swimming pool, she is working in the garden just to keep an eye on you. She is complaining about, noise and you taking a glass to the swimming pool because that would be dangerous, which is quite ironic because there are screws all around the swimming pool sticking out of the stones. So please be careful, when you walk with bare feet. The chairs at the swimming pool are very old and fragile, a chair even broke when someone was sitting on it. We turned the chair around and it was previously repaired with new screws. Still they withhold a large amount from our deposit. Most likely they are repairing the chair again and try to do their little scam again with another visitor. This is not all, we paid 150 euros for cleaning of the house. Still the owners had the guts to withhold a part of the deposit because we did not turn the dishwasher on and left 3 garbage bags. For real, why do you pay 150 euros for. What is included? When you are withholding money from the deposit when the dishwasher is not empty and you left a few garbage bags. There is not even a dumpster at the property. I have read that mo