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Complaint Review: Robert Parkes - Nationwide
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Robert Parkes
Nationwide, USA
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Robert Parkes Robert Parkes advertises his villa on www.vrbo.com website Rental By Owner Belek, Turkey Nationwide
Please be careful when you book this property as the owner and the property manager will misrepresent all the amenities that the villa has to offer. The pictures are very deceiving and do not show the true location of this villa. The villa is situated in an isolated, unsafe and undeveloped area with zero access to an internet or a phone. In the event of any emergency you will not be able to communicate with the rest of the world as the closes major road is about 1 km away. The owner is very dishonest and does not disclose in the property description that the AC is not fully functional and with over 100 degrees weather you will have to wake up at night and turn on the AC every hour in order to keep the villa cool. There is a big sign under each AC unit explaining that the AC will turn off automatically after an hour to preserve electricity and safe money. (For the owner). We traveled from US and arrived at the property on June 3rd. The taxi driver who was arranged by the owner (Robert Parkes) picked us up and took us to the villa. (Cost $200) The cab driver was substituting the property manager and had the keys to the villa. He asked us if we intent to use both levels of the villa as he had a girlfriend in town and he wanted to use the second level. This was extremely suspicious that taxi driver/property manager wanted to use the villa for personal leisure. As we arrived we were greeted at the door by an older woman trying to mop the tile floors. The property was not clean and the surroundings were unsafe. We felt like we were in an abandon area as there was nothing around but half-built villas with constructions workers, weeds and trash from the construction project. The bed sheets were also not clean and had major stains on them. There were no towels in the closet, no additional bed sheets, no electricity in the downstairs bathroom. The pool was exactly as it appears on the pictures but had bunch of leaves in there as it was not maintained. There are no grocery stores, no restaurant not even a convenience store within walking distance as it was advertised on the property description. We had the villa reserved for 2 weeks but after seeing the real condition of the property we couldn't even stay there for 2 hours. We immediately left the villa and checked in to a hotel in Antalya which is about 1 hour away via taxi from the villa. Please be aware that the owner refused to communicate after we reported these issues. He is a scam.
