Castro Pretorio

I don't want to write a review or express an opinion, I'll just give a summary of the facts. I'm returning to this B&B after 6 years since my last visit and I see that it's under new management. One hundred and thirty (130) euros a night. An above-average price for a B&B. Breakfast is already in the room upon arrival and consists of a couple of packaged snacks, two mini Nutella kits, and 4 wholemeal biscuits. Six years ago, there was every kind of delicacy in the common room. I at least had the pleasure of seeing the Camilles again and taking a trip back to the 90s. There are no cutlery or anything to spread Nutella on. I struggled to use the coffee stirrer to spread it. There are no chairs to sit on, so I ate breakfast in the room standing up. The light bulb above the bed doesn't work. The app to open the building and apartment doors didn't work until 3 PM. For goodness sake, check-in was advertised as 3 PM, but if a guest arrives a little earlier (it was 2 PM), it's not ideal not to be able to enter. After I was given the keys, I noticed that the key for the front door didn't work either. But let's get to the crux of the matter: the toilet was unusable. By unusable, I mean the toilet didn't flush; I couldn't get it to work because the flush button was so hard to push. Even if I managed to push it all the way down, no water came out. I was told I needed to push harder. Now, in almost 40 years of life, I've never had a problem with flushing a toilet, so obviously having to apply 250 Newtons of force to flush a toilet can't be normal. You can't pass off as normal a situation where it's not only difficult, but impossible to flush. I must have tried about fifty times. Nothing, the water never came out. But the facility manager thought it was me who wasn't using enough force, who wasn't "squeezing properly." We'll see when the next patrons are perhaps older. With a good "I'll call the plumber tomorrow," it all ended. Too bad I was leaving the next day. For €130 a night, I couldn't use the bathroom and ate two off-brand whole wheat toast standing up with a coffee stirrer as cutlery. That's fine. I don't want to wish professional failure on anyone, but I remember that market forces and competition can be devastating in the long run if you don't straighten things out.