Kind of mixed feelings, globally « positive but ». I would rate 3.5 but I cannot.
The place is beautiful with a very cool swimming pool, and I love the site with stones for the house(s). It is cozy, not a basic rental. The apartment was the one at the level 0, its ceiling was high and globally its inside appearance was very very nice (except the painted walls in brown, which seem to have been done very quickly with mistakes, and the kitchen which was of low quality). The main bedroom is amazing with its nice windows and the direct view with the pool.
It was very clean.
The outside (garden, pool, etc.) is very nice.
An easy contact less checkin checkout; I missed a human contact but ok, at least that was easy.
Nice location to visit around.
Calm.
Easy to park.
On the contrary, as soon as you arrive few things are not very pleasant.
- As the swimming pool is shared with this appartement, the one above, and the 3-4 bungalows in front (+people coming from the other group of stones houses on the site, as their swimming pool was not as cool as this one !), you see that it operates either from 11:00 to 18:00 (pool rules paper, outside), or to 10:00 to 19:00 (our global rules paper, inside). Ok, a bit restricted, i suppose that 10:00 to at least 21:00 would have been much more logical. But we will see later that this was just FYI.
- the air conditioning is absolutely not adapted. Only small one for the full appartement, I woke up 2 times as it was toooo warm inside. And worse: it operates only if you are at the apartment ! You can not visit a town and coming back in a cool apartment, as the full electricity depends on a magnetic card, as an hotel, attached to the key. So when you leave, air conditioning just stops immediately… as it was a small one, that was a double shame :(
- it is between an hotel and a airbnb. When we arrive the appartement was totally empty and we saw nobody. Nothing to welcome you, neither someone with nice words and advices to visit around (or at least a paper/welcome kit in this period?), neither a cold bottle of water in the fridge. So I felt like I rent with an hotel, in a smaller version. And cold,‘nothing warm as a welcome hosts usually do !
- the kitchen was pretty empty, in the sense that there was no salt, oil, basic stuff. But not even a strainer to dry your pasta ! I won’t list but this was just below the minimum.
- the light outside is a cold white one not sufficient to even play cards on your outside table
- and…. I had to do the police 2 times. And I hate that, I am on holidays…. So, as said above the swimming pool is supposed to have rules. After thé first day, hopefully people who wake up early start to go to the pool at 9:00 am. And in the evening you can see families and few peoples going there up to 9:00-10:00 pm, which was natural and of course ok. There was a group of students in the apartment above us. Very nice ones, cool, smiling. But well, we have all been young ! And we know that a swimming pool is very attractive during the night. So, as my main bedroom is glue to the swimming pool, when a group of young people laugh loudly, run and dive in the pool, at 1:30 am, you cannot sleep. As said, they were nice so I told them and they stopped making noises. They remain swimming actually. The same scenario 2 days after, we all know that students forgot quickly lol that is ok as they were cool. I am not really upset with them, I understand. But I do not understand that there was nobody from the rental on site to stop them, and that I had to do the police, in the middle of the night, just to be able to sleep… and for that I am really not happy.
Well, pretty long description, as I said this was positive. I give more details on the issues but again, the overall experience was ok. Just, when you look for those types of rentals on Airbnb, you also look for a more perfect experience. And to have nice nights, cool and calme…