Foto North Ocean Hotel

DO NOT STAY HERE. We had this hotel picked for us for a football tournament, I was apprehensive about coming down after I had read the reviews previously but I thought stay open minded and it’s for the kids. We arrived and given our key to room 23. I had taken dettol wipes and some cleaning bits and bobs and I’m so glad I had. The room was absolutely filthy, there was food stuff on floor, the bathroom still had hair in the bath and every surface was covered in dirt. The walls were covered in holes with a half hearted attempt to cover with plaster, the view would have been great if you could have actually seen out the windows they were that dirty. The bed sheets looked as if they had been turned over rather than be changed as had stains all over them.I took our own duvet covers and sheets and put them on. We cleaned the room and headed out for the afternoon when we got back we had gone into the lounge area where we thought we’d wait on the rest of the boys to get a catch up with the team, the guy serving behind the bar had poured himself a pint and was sitting in the corner, I watch him as one of the guests approached the bar he got up and put his hand down his trousers had a good old scratch and then picked the glass up and continued serving customer. That was enough for me we just headed up to room. My husband shouted on me to tell me he had found a bug on the curtains and he had taken a photo of it, when I zoomed in I knew it just wasn’t just any bug, but I thought we did have the window open so try stay open minded. This put me on high alert, I checked our bed and my sons and at that time didn’t see anything obvious but as we sat I caught glimpse of a tiny bug crawl along my sons bed covers, then another and when I pulled back his covers there was a bed bug crawling along the top of his boxers. I had had enough at this and we packed our things and luckily we had driven down in a mini bus so at 0130am we were walking along the north side of Blackpool and had to sleep in the mini bus. I left our duvet covers and sheets as I was not bringing them home. I have video and pictures of how disgusting this hotel is and also video of the bed bug crawling along the top of the bed covers. Another one of the girls that was staying found a used sanitary pad in the bed and the room covered in mould and damp. The same man that was serving behind the bar picked the sanitary pad up with his bare hands put it in the bin and then went behind the bar and started serving , not only is the hotel absolutely filthy but the staff are so unhygienic it’s disgusting. The main door to the property is left unlocked allowing anyone at all to enter the property. Hotel is filthy and unsafe. Please read and believe the one star reviews. I have no idea how anyone can find this hotel acceptable to stay in.