The good:
The house is a spacious, bright place with huge windows that let in tons of natural light. It combines a Mediterranean with a rustic feeling with a brick ceiling and ample spaces. A long hallway guides you through the house and has a lovely indoor garden behind a artisanal windowpane to your right. It is considerably bigger than the pictures show. The host, Alejandra, was kind, communicative, and graceful during the whole stay. The kitchen has a great variety of utensils, a fantastic indoor gas oven that burns hot, two fridges and one huge freezer downstairs to stuff anything you could want. It has lovely marble counters and excellent knives. It has a fantastic washing machine that works great.
It has three different dinner tables, two inside and one outside. It has a spacious and comfortable sofa in which you can literally have two people sleep, with a very modern TV that allows YouTube projection, compatible with all sorts of modern media outlets, and even an internet browser. They have a Netflix account plugged in. It has a stereo with outside speakers. It has an additional fridge on the upper patio for cool drinks good for the summer. Has powerful AC and heating units in the hallway and on each of the rooms. Has a solid reinforced front door that will allow you a sound's night sleep. Has two bedroom-attached bathrooms for additional privacy, and two additional mid-bathrooms. Has 4 single beds, one folding sofa-bed and one plus-sized king bed. Tons of storage space on all bedrooms. It even has a fruit tree! It is a lovely house. Patio is very private.
There is a fantastic, wide BBQ grill outside with a leveling rack and excellent light to cook anything you want even at night! It even has a huge prep table behind made with very sanitary materials so it's really easy to keep clean. There is a laundry room with a top quality washing machine.
The bad:
The welcome speech was odd, tailing with "and no parties allowed!". I felt uneasy, as if I was being treated like a child. We also heard a pointer during the walkthrough that there would be people coming in at different times to clean who had the key, and even though they were trustworthy we 'shouldn't exactly leave piles of money laying around' which gave us a mixed message. We were told that they would be giving us a heads-up before they entered, but few of the times they came in unannounced or at a different date than expected.
Grass hasn't been treated or fertilized in a while so with rain it has become really really muddy and patchy, and you can't really walk through or sit on it without trailing dirt.
Upon arrival furniture was dusty, and the kitchen floor has not been mopped very well prior to arrival.
The kitchen sink drain is really slow when draining. To treat it, groundskeepers pump the pipe. Couple of days in we called it in and a gentleman came in to pump it with a bathroom slap and then turned to tell us it had been our fault for tossing food pieces into the drain. The drain has a small slit to prevent large pieces from flowing in and there is also a drain gasket which we cleaned out daily. Two days later the drain got plugged again and we just let it be slow for the remainder of the stay.
There is a broken crystal at the back door patched with plastic, tape and bubble wrap.
Master bathroom has a nice, large looking tub with water jets installed, but upon testing it we noticed that it did not work. Host explained that jets have been dead for 10 years.
There is a pizza/smoking oven outside, but this oven is faulty. Upon firing it up it will take a very long time to heat and may even die out sporadically in comparison with the indoor one.
There are a couple of eating silverware utensils that have visible rust spots on them.
Due to the age of the house, there are latches on certain windows and doors that don't catch well, or at all, handles that come off when pulled, and the rear door drags when opened. It needs a bit of a push to open or close and ends up smacking the frame when closing at times.
There are a couple of uneven surfaces thanks to humidity (particularly on the first room too the left) and short steps which are hard to see on first arrival, so good to keep in mind if you have elderly. The property does not have it's own parking, so you will have to keep in mind that if you bring your own vehicle, it will be a bit challenging to find parking due to the popularity of the zone.
The ugly:
When we arrived the pool was nasty dirty. It had not been cleaned in months. It had heavy mold on the bottom of the pool. The host explained that as they didn't expect us to be using it due to the weather being cooler, it was not cleaned. A gentleman came in after we notified and sprayed a cleaning agent, which didn't do much.
Water pressure was an absolute nightmare. They explained that the water system worked with a pump, so upon opening it would take 10 to 15 seconds to fully push out pressure, which would double. Regulating temperature was like tuning a fine dial. Half an inch turn would be a difference of 20°F or more, so before each shower you may take 5 minutes or more figuring the temperature. Same for bidets.
Listing shows the property as having a drier/drying machine. It doesn't. It has drying hooks, lines, and perches.
Master bathroom has a nice big crystal top window for natural light... A window which anybody in the house can peek through. It's not polarized or anything so anybody in the upper