Based on all good reviews and a 5 star rating, I booked Leaves Lodge for a short family vacation over the long weekend. When I booked directly with the lodge they made a concerted effort to accommodate our family with 2 small kids. I was assured we would be given very clean & lovely accommodation in new lodges.
We arrived late at night & everyone was exhausted. We found that the accommodation was not new , the one might have been renovated recently but not new. In this unit the rooms were large and showers were nice & comfortable but the jacuzzi in the room never worked, we had 2 small kids that couldn't enjoy the use of it. The water went cold after 3 people had a shower, we complained from the first day but they said nothing was wrong, it continued to do that. The one night a cat was in the unit when we got home after a long day out & it urinated in the house, it smelled of it & when we asked them to clean it up, someone merely came to look where the cat is and never cleaned the mess. After the cleaners cleaned we still found dust and spider webs in bathrooms and behind doors.
The other unit was old you could tell by the stuffy smell in the lodge just the rooms done up nice with nice bedding, the bathrooms were extremely small & when you showered you could not turn about in the shower without touching a wall. This was extremely uncomfortable. We resorted to taking a shower at the bigger unit but this was even more worse because the water turned cold after 3 people bathed.
Service was not 5 star service & poor. I would not rate this 5 star accommodation. Very disappointing and we paid a very high price per night and in total for the weekend and we expected luxurious accommodation and treatment as other 5 star hotels.