LandM
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I am so glad I found this thread as I thought it was only us who thought that Brighton Marina was a shabby shambles. We arrived here in October initially for the winter, hoping to head back to Chichester, our favourite marina for the summer.
However having secured a year long job in London and loving the life in Brighton itself, we decided to take out an annual berth. As a liveaboard there, I would like to add to some of the frustrations mentioned here.
Firstly though in defence of dog owners (and we have cats so no favouritism here)….The picture of the sch!t……that’s not dog poo – it’s swan poo. At the moment there are about six swans living around West Jetty. They are lovely to look at but make a LOT of mess! It does get hosed down daily we think, but seems to return with alarming regularity.
I must say in the 7 months we have lived at West Jetty, we’ve seen many dogs but no dog poo at all, except once on the ramp towards the boardwalk. In fairness that could be anyone’s dog as it’s a public area. In general, owners do keep their dogs on leads and seem to look after them.
The picture of the overflowing bin was and is not an isolated incident. This happens very often. Over Easter the bins on West Jetty near the gents loos overflowed and were eventually removed……but not returned for over 24 hours! During this time and with absolutely no other bin in the vicinity, bags of rubbish were piled high. We felt like we were living in a rubbish dump! Staff really didn’t seem to care at all.
The trolley situation is really bad. We’ve had a trolley dumped on our finger pontoon right by where we get off the boat. This really annoys me. Why on earth can’t people just return them to the bays? We were told new trollies had been ordered but these all seem to be on the East Jetty (which is a lot cleaner IMHO) so we have to run the gauntlet of Asda trollies instead which are also just dumped on the pontoons…..
The showers are ok if you get the right cubicle……the water is hot enough, but you have to dance about to get any coverage in some of the cubicles. Compared to Chichester or Port Solent they are downright poor. A broken hairdryer took 6 months to be replaced.
………talking of broken appliances….laundry! There are two washers and two dryers – I say two but since January there has been just one dryer on the West Jetty. A notice informs us that a replacement has been ordered yet this hasn’t arrived and it’s now 4 months later. Considering the amount of liveaboards and weekend visitors I think they should be a bit more proactive here.
Staff are hit and miss. Sarah has been lovely but some staff are just downright rude and surly. A shame because the attitudes of some staff are tarring the rest with the same brush (a bit like the attitudes of some liveaboards
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I hope the OP’s correspondence with the CEO results in getting something done to improve the hygiene, facilities and general attitude of those in charge.
However having secured a year long job in London and loving the life in Brighton itself, we decided to take out an annual berth. As a liveaboard there, I would like to add to some of the frustrations mentioned here.
Firstly though in defence of dog owners (and we have cats so no favouritism here)….The picture of the sch!t……that’s not dog poo – it’s swan poo. At the moment there are about six swans living around West Jetty. They are lovely to look at but make a LOT of mess! It does get hosed down daily we think, but seems to return with alarming regularity.
I must say in the 7 months we have lived at West Jetty, we’ve seen many dogs but no dog poo at all, except once on the ramp towards the boardwalk. In fairness that could be anyone’s dog as it’s a public area. In general, owners do keep their dogs on leads and seem to look after them.
The picture of the overflowing bin was and is not an isolated incident. This happens very often. Over Easter the bins on West Jetty near the gents loos overflowed and were eventually removed……but not returned for over 24 hours! During this time and with absolutely no other bin in the vicinity, bags of rubbish were piled high. We felt like we were living in a rubbish dump! Staff really didn’t seem to care at all.
The trolley situation is really bad. We’ve had a trolley dumped on our finger pontoon right by where we get off the boat. This really annoys me. Why on earth can’t people just return them to the bays? We were told new trollies had been ordered but these all seem to be on the East Jetty (which is a lot cleaner IMHO) so we have to run the gauntlet of Asda trollies instead which are also just dumped on the pontoons…..
The showers are ok if you get the right cubicle……the water is hot enough, but you have to dance about to get any coverage in some of the cubicles. Compared to Chichester or Port Solent they are downright poor. A broken hairdryer took 6 months to be replaced.
………talking of broken appliances….laundry! There are two washers and two dryers – I say two but since January there has been just one dryer on the West Jetty. A notice informs us that a replacement has been ordered yet this hasn’t arrived and it’s now 4 months later. Considering the amount of liveaboards and weekend visitors I think they should be a bit more proactive here.
Staff are hit and miss. Sarah has been lovely but some staff are just downright rude and surly. A shame because the attitudes of some staff are tarring the rest with the same brush (a bit like the attitudes of some liveaboards
)I hope the OP’s correspondence with the CEO results in getting something done to improve the hygiene, facilities and general attitude of those in charge.
