A mum has told how she had a nightmare hotel stay after allegedly finding "blood stains and bed bugs " during a romantic trip away.
Katie Moss had hoped for a quiet break away from her kids with her partner.
But the devastated couple claim they were disgusted by the stomach-churning condition of the room.
Norbreck Castle Hotel describes itself as a "stunning Castle like hotel offering a warm welcome to the famous Seaside Resort".
Reviews on TripAdvisor give it a three-star rating, with some comments describing it as "poor" on the ratings' site.
Katie Moss claimed to BirminghamLive she was met with "blood on the door and wall, filthy carpets, a broken shower and 70s Coronation Street style bed" during her stay.
She claims it was a far cry from the 'marble furniture' advertised online.
And instead of having Christmas dinner at the hotel, she and her partner spent December 25 eating pot noodles on a perishing beach.
She said: "We got up to the room and I was like 'oh my God'. There was all blood up the door and up the wall."
She added: "It was not like the photos on Booking.com with the marble furniture, my bed was like something from Coronation Street in the 70s, wooden legs on little black wheels."
The "state of the room", she claimed, was so bad she didn't feel she could even take her shoes off during the stay.
She said: "The carpet was full of this white chunky powder stuff and all over the cabinets and when I touched it with my hairbrush it crumbled off
"It was wipeable so obviously it hadn't been cleaned. There was hot chocolate all over the stairwell down the wall in the hallway.
"That was there when we got there and still there when I was checking out so that proved it wasn't cleaned."
Katie said they refused to eat at the hotel during their £168 two-night stay and tried to spend as much time away from the venue as possible.
She claimed she felt the need to buy her own cups after seeing the 'state' of the mugs provided.
They had planned to go out of the hotel on Christmas Eve to enjoy a show they booked, but that was cancelled due to Covid.
She said: "I had to take sleeping tablets because all I did was cry.
"Christmas morning I was going to have my dinner there, thank God I didn't. But instead I had to sit in the freezing cold on the beach with no where open Christmas day, starving."
The couple instead had pot noodles for their Christmas dinner, finished off with digestive biscuits from a 'little hut' on the beach and some hot donuts.
The pair then checked out first thing on Boxing Day to head back on the 1pm coach to Birmingham.
Katie said: "I came back with bed bug bites, who gets bites in December? There were six in a little cluster on my left hip, where your bottom of your back starts. I can assure you I didn't go with them. They appeared on the coach on the way back."
She continued: "I just wanted to try going away without the kids for the first time, my youngest is 20 now. I thought, 'no cooking, no stress'. Wow it was the worst mistake of my life.
"It's traumatised me I don't think I'll go away again. I know you get those fussy guests but this was bad. It just ruined the whole Christmas. It was just horrendous. The way they've tried to resolve the matter was even worse."
Mrs Moss said she had complained to the hotel and was offered a 20 per cent refund. And though she had hoped for a full refund, months later, the £33 still had not been issued. At that point she claimed she told hotel bosses she would name and shame them.
The hotel has issued Mrs Moss a full refund.
The Mirror Online has contacted Britannia Hotels, the owners of Norbreck Castle, for a response to the claims.
