The Uplands Apartments

As with most of the reviews, very well presented accommodation, communication was good, easy parking and most of the things you want for a few days self catering. Furniture is a little tired, but functional. Met the staff very friendly, served with a smile. Feedback for the management, the carving knives could be sharpened , and a bread knife would be useful

We stayed at the Uplands many years ago prior to having the kids. We throughly enjoyed our stay then, so we booked for our most recent trip. We had an end apartment which consisted of a well appointed kitchen, modern and clean as the place was throughout. Nice touch was the tea, coffee breakfast cereal and milk on arrival. The living room had a dining table which could sit 4, two large sofa’s and a full size pull down bed from a wall unit which was very comfortable. Tv (normal channels) and a DVD player. Upstairs was a large bedroom with three single beds two of which were together to make a large double bed. There was a large bathroom, well stocked and plenty of towels. Full excellent central heating and hot water, and very fast free wi fi available. Parking was easy and about a 20 minutes walk downhill to St Helier, back up was about 2/3 up hill but nothing someone reasonably fit would not enjoy. A taxi from the town centre back to the apartment is less than £10. All in we loved our stay, it was easy to travel around the island from this location by car and only about 15 minutes to the airport. Yes some of the furniture is dated, but only because it’s pine and not the current in thing. It not luxury but you’re only in it to sleep and it’s so much nicer than a hotel room. We booked direct with the hotel chain and all correspondence was excellent. Would definitely use it again.

Uplands Apartment, (serviced weekly), for visitors / tourists, a part of Morvan Hotels, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands. A home away, on holiday. Has different sized flats, in the buildings, in a residential area, very uphill from central St Helier. We had a rental car, for the week we stayed. Would be difficult otherwise, I imagine... Was VERY difficult to find, upon arrival. We tried so many times, by using the paper maps picked up on the airport, but were stuck driving around in central St Helier, a not easy place to navigate in by car. Then the GPS made the last trick... (not always an option...for visitors from abroad, with telecom-/internet-rules and roaming etc. However, a nice 'cottage'-type small complex. We stayed in a flat sleeping 4 (5). Downstairs a combined living room, with a rather cramped furnished room (could have less furniture, with smaller sized furniture, and possibly not a large-fold-down-bed-cabinet, perhaps better a proper good-quality-bedsofa queen sized). A double-bed, queen-sized, a double duvet (not good, at least for two people), but an extra duvet upstairs in a storage box (no extra duvet cover though...). A sturdy and good kitchen table with four sturdy chairs. Two sofas, very comfy, but a bit large in size. Small side-/coffeetables (2). An under-stairs-storage-cupboard, with a foldable baby-/small childs highchair, and a foldable baby bed. Also an ironing board, and an iron. We would greatly have appreciated a foldable washing-drying-rack, to be put out in the back small 'garden', space outside the living room. Many visitors have to travel with a minimum bagage/clothes, if travelling for more than a week, and needs washing up during their holiday. Could easily, and not expensive, be a foldable rack in this storage. A very pleasant, small proper kitchen (not just a kitchenette), with the one thing we in the family loved so much - the old-style wall-kitchen-opening into the living room. A serving-window. So very useful, and charming. Upstairs a bedroom with a kingsized bed, and a singlesized bed beside. Bedside cabinets. A large, very sturdy clothes cabinet/wardrobe. A 'toilet'-table old-style with a mirror. A wood-box storagebox (extra duvet). Three chairs with textile. Two windows. Charming, peaceful. A goodsized bathroom, with bathtub and shower, toilet and zink. Window. Very airy. Easy to air out, with the window, and airing windows at the top at all windows. Though a bit difficult to open, some of them. (Would need oil, and possibly some adjusting...). A good built-in-cabinet at the top of the stairs, fits 4 suitcases easily, to have them out of the way. A safe-deposit-box in this space. There is a small washing-room, at the side of the building with the smaller-sized flats. Needs tokens. Can be bought at Norman Lodge Hotel, a couple of minutes drive away (or delivered). Very old-style washing-machine, but worked fine. A fairly good dryer. The space not very nice, could do with a renovation, b