Disappointing - Small, Not "on the beach", Doesn't sleep 6, Not well maintained, Not luxurious.
All-in-all not what I was expecting from a premium priced Penthouse in a luxury condominium as it is listed.
And sadly the Host did not follow through on his promises to rectify the few issues we did raise for rectification.
Overall not good value for money.
I consider the Listing is misleading (and have reported such to ABnB) because points summarised above but i discuss more because it is important for any potential Guest to be aware. These issues significantly affect the value for money - and this is a premium priced apartment so a premium product and support should be delivered.
To get into context, we spent 90days here as de-stress after being stuck in Lockdown in Peru for 5 months. I wanted somewhere that we could move into and get on with life and not have to deal with any issues and I was prepared to pay for that.
To me, the mention of sleeping 6 and three bedrooms imples three twin bedrooms and a size of accomodation to suit. In fact there is not room for a sixth bed (two twin bedrooms and a single bed in the "servant's room" which is just big enough for that!). The living space is TV room approx 3m x 9m, corridor kitchen and a "Service/Laundry Area" outside the servant's rooms - but this becomes unusable when it rains due to leak in the roof. To me, this would not be comfortable for 5 people let alone 6 !
The furniture and fittings are not luxurious as you would expect, i would describe as standard apartment stuff, almost flatpack. The umbrella is vital outside but is broken and the canopy torn.
But one of most unacceptable things is the lack of maintainance and poor fittings that disappoint - from leaking sink, towel rail coming off wall, loose tap on sink that lifts when you try to open, irratating TV remote that won't allow channel selection, the access door and frame for the hot-tub electrics is not secured and just falls out (danger to children and pets!), etc. through to imbalanced showers such that the en-suite wont hold a constant temperture even on its own and both cannot be used together, through to leak in service area roof so that floor becomes waterlogged and slippery and room unusable. Both of these the Host admitted he knew about.
Also unacceptbale is the amount of amateur electrical wiring - i.e. sticky tape over external spotlight connections and wiring for the 3rd bedroom A/C being too short to reach socket so it needs to be pulled from conduit in wall and taken into socket through the window !
And sadly the support of the Host wained after the initial discussion about local restaurants. The leaking roof, hot tub lights (the spotlight alternate is not romantic) and the showers were major issues for us and reported early on - but although the Host promised to rectify, they never were. (Frustatingly the replacement light switch for the hot-tub arrived with a week or so but the Host never arranged for to be fitted.)
A final word of caution re AirBnB policy - unless you formally detail all issues via AirBnB within 24hrs of check-in or them happening, AirBnB cannot raise an issue withthe Host.
Since i thought the Host was an honest and reliable person, i didn't do this prefering to try to rectify the issue rather than have conflict. The Host said he would rectify and i believed and trusted him.
Annoyingly through-out the rental he did not come-clean and say he was not going to rectify, but instead kept leading me on that someone was coming ! When i eventually requested a discount appropriate to the impact of the issues he (obviously begrudgingly) offered $182 as a "token gesture" he called it !! I think this of all things provides an insight into the Host !
I hope this is useful information and if the Host reads i hope he will modify his attitude, his Listing, bring his property upto the standard expected and provide value-for-money which it certainly is not at present.