Valeria’s place has a wonderful location. It was also very clean, small but enough space for a family of four if you don’t mind going up and down stairs (there are a lot of them). It’s right next to a bustling market filled with restaurants and cute gift stores. There are some great coffee shops around as well. All the important attractions are just about 15-20 minutes away.
Valeria was very good with adjusting our days on request. In the beginning we booked for 5 days, then decided to cut it shorter 3 and she was very good with making those adjustments. Later our plan changed again, we made a second consecutive booking and we stayed almost 8 days at her place.Good Air Conditioning, good location and clean.
My only problem with this place is that it’s self catering place even for the basic necessities. That is a bit of a problem because there are no supply or grocery stores near by (closest one we found was at least a 15 minute walk). For an international tourist to land, with no knowledge of local place or language, it can be a struggle and it was so with us. We were supplied one small shampoo bottle, one tiny bar of soap, one face and one bath towel. There is a washer but no dryer. That meant waiting for at least 24 hours for the towels to dry, longer if it rained. Despite having a second booking extending the stay to 8 days, our supplies were not replenished and we ran out of toilet paper, soap, shampoo, clean towels and linens (these are mentioned as list of amenities provided). There is no electric coffee maker (there is a tiny one cup manual coffee maker which we could not make any sense of), or hand washing or dishwashing soap.
We have realized self catering places are not suitable for us as we truly don’t want to go grocery shop for essentials like toilet paper when on vacation. It would have been nice to have someone come clean the place at least once during our 8 days stay but we never met or saw Valerie or anyone else. I did my best to sweep and wipe and keep it all clean, but that did dampen my vacation spirits.
Note: The city tax is not included in the rent so be prepared to pay about 4 Euro per person per day right when you arrive. It is mentioned in the fine print. They only take cash.