Lucy and Manuel’s place was pretty amazing. First of all, it’s huge. The ceilings in most rooms are 18 feet high. The bedrooms on the first floor all have similar sized ceilings. You could easily seat 14 people at the main dinner table and 10 at the smaller one. There is a lot of outdoor space (though you should burn mosquito coils which Lucy provides while you are sitting outside). The photos do not do the place justice for how much space there is.
Most people wondered why we did not stay in Palermo, like most tourists do. Simple, this place is huge and the same sized place in Palermo would have cost a lot more. Uber in BA is very cheap. You can take an Uber to Palermo most nights for $6.00 or less. Also, Lucy’s place is much closer to San Telmo and the Boca Stadium.
Water pressure is excellent throughout the house and the tap water is potable. Frosty beer mugs are kept in the freezer to ensure your beer is always ice cold.
There is one thing missing in the kitchen if you are planning on cooking. There is only one serrated kitchen knife to do all your cutting with. We ate out for dinner every night, so this wasn’t an issue. However, if you were planning on cooking, you would probably want to invest in a chef’s knife as the one here is as dull as dull gets. There is even a bbq in the rear section of the courtyard.
There is also a housekeeper named Marta. She is wonderful. She always has a smile on her face. She makes up your rooms, tidies the courtyard and even washes your cups and restocks the frosty mugs in the freezer. She works very hard to make sure that your stay is that much better, so please do not be stingy when you go and leave her a nice tip.
You should be advised that although the listing has 4 beds as “king sized”, they are actually just two single beds pushed/held together. This didn’t bother any of us as most people sleep on one side, but if you wanted to sprawl across the bed you would definitely feel the middle where the two beds meet. In any event the linens and pillows were all very soft; definitely a step up from what you normally get.
Lucy and Manuel are also very kind. The house is decorated with Lucy’s paintings and Manuel was quick to provide us with the contact information for a good place to go and change dollars to pesos (at an amazing rate). They also let me check out late because my flight was not leaving until the evening.
We would definitely come back and stay here again. Thank you, Lucy and Manuel.
Ciao!