Family’s holiday home from hell with ‘bloodstained carpets and sex toys’

A young family’s idyllic countryside getaway rapidly turned into a vacation from hellhole aft they discovered bloody carpets and graphic enactment toys astatine their rental house.

Dad-of-four Paul Norris, who gave a pseudonym to support his identity, was shocked to get astatine the £300-a-night location successful Northern Ireland for a week’s interruption to observe a fearfulness movie country each passim the five-bedroom property.

The maestro chamber was packed afloat of enactment toys and bondage gear, arsenic good arsenic boasting escaped medicine and a blood-stained mattress - and the different rooms weren’t overmuch better, helium told The Guardian.

“We rapidly moved the children into the kitchen, wherever we recovered an unfastened vessel of nicotine vape liquid connected a worktop, and checked the different bedside furniture and wardrobe,” Mr Norris said.

“These contained adjacent much items including ropes, whips, penis enlargers, handcuffs and opened tubes of lubricant.” 

Mr Norris said the soiled spot ruined the household travel (Image: Getty)

Amid much soiled furnishings and mouldy food, Mr Norris contacted the homeowner, who admitted helium hadn’t cleaned the location due to the fact that his canine had been changeable by constabulary aft biting someone. 

In yet different bizarre turn, erstwhile the father-of-four reached retired to Vrbo for a refund, helium was told that the problems were “minor” and didn’t suffice him to person his wealth returned. 

Photos of the location yet convinced Vrbo workers, however, and offered to wage for the household to determination into a adjacent hotel. They turned it down and alternatively shelled retired £2,000 for different vacation home.

The booking costs were yet refunded and Vrbo besides paid the household £1,000 successful compensation.

It offered small comfortableness to the household astatine the time, however, and the hellish spot - arsenic good arsenic the hard process of relocation - “completely ruined our trip”, Mr Norris said.

“The grade of what we recovered successful that location was surreal and we felt trapped by the deficiency of support,” helium added.

“I was forced to walk hours during the archetypal 3 days of the vacation stuck connected the telephone - mostly connected clasp - to Vrbo, the big and my bank.”

A spokesperson for Vrbo said they “take the wellness and information of guests precise seriously”. “We regularly measure our policies and our wellness and information squad is presently re-investigating this case,” they added.