Beach House Seaside Resort

We had a lovely stay at Beachside, it was convenient to be able to walk to a lot of things.

The second bedroom was extremely stiffy and hot as you couldnt open windows. There was a leak in the main bathroom around the vanity.

The main reason I am writing this review is to express my disappointment with the fire evacuation conducted at 11:40pm on the 22nd of September at Beach House Seaside Resort. I am in no way shape or form angry about the "fire" situation which occurred in the bike hire shop downstairs (koolbike&hires)... these things happen, a lithium battery was leaking due to being left on charge too long and the steam /smell set the water sprinkler to go off, which furthermore set the buildings evacuation alarm off. So yes, it was real, there was an emergency situation. Again, these things happen. What shouldn't happen is what happened when the evacuation alarm went off. I am upset and absolutely livid, yes, LIVID, about the Beach House Seaside Resort's fire evacuation system. It is completely unsafe, and probably ILLEGAL, and I'll explain to you why. On each floor there are 3 fire alarm speakers. One outside the elevators, which are supposed to "notify" rooms 04/05 and then another one in the dome of 01/02/03 and same thing with the dome of 06/07/08. These speakers were nowhere near as loud as they could or should have been. This leads to my next point of the fact that there were no speakers in the actual rooms themselves. I have NEVER stayed in a hotel where the speakers are outside in the corridor, rather than in the rooms. This is so dangerous because heavy sleepers like me can't, and we DIDN'T, hear the siren go off. The noise of the alarm must travel through the unit front door (which is heavy and thick), down the long hallway in the unit to the bedrooms, and then actually get through the gaps of the door in the bedrooms. (I have attached a video below of how long the distance was from my bedroom to where the fire alarm speaker was, in some other units, this distance is longer). We had the doors shut for privacy but now we won't anymore after what happened last night. I was in 1006 with my elderly grandparents who sleep through noise and the rest of my family was in room 1005. Thankfully they were up at the right time and actually heard the alarm go off (they could barely hear it) and quickly came running down the hallway to notify us. They were banging on the door and yelling. They also rung our mobiles which woke us up. The fact that the banging and our cellular phones were louder than the evacuation alarm is absolutely RIDICULOUS. We heard the knocking and didn't know what was going on. As we got closer to the door then we could hear the alarm going off and we could smell an intense amount of smoke. Imagine if our family wasn't next door and we were just by ourselves. We wouldn't have heard it nor evacuated on time. The alarm continuously repeated the phrase "evacuate as directed". We were given no instructions, so we just had to follow everyone down the fire escape stairs all the way down 10 flights of stairs with elderly people and hope for the best! Many people who were in wheelchairs were carried down... no staff came to help. The smoke occurred on