We had a lovely week in Martina Franca. The pool was wonderful and our children enjoyed the swings, table football and tennis court.
There are a few things that let the property down, however - there is no bin provided anywhere inside the property, so we had to keep a big plastic bag on the floor in the kitchen. The kitchen itself has almost no food preparation area, just a very small surface beside the hob. The bathroom feels as though it is in need of repair - the towel rail (held in place by a single nail) fell off, and the shower kept falling out of place. The shower itself is extremely small and no shelf is provided, making it very difficult to reach shampoo, shower gel etc. The wifi is almost unusable, even for browsing text-based websites - a lot of the time it didn’t work at all, and certainly wouldn’t allow any streaming, video calls etc.
Whilst it is mentioned on the property description, we didn’t appreciate all the extra costs involved: bed linen, towels, electricity and water for a week came to an extra €240.
Our check out time was advertised as 10:00am - however, we were then told the manager and cleaners would arrive at 8. We said we would be ready to leave at 08:30am which was agreed, but they still turned up before 08:00am and started cleaning as we were still packing up, which we didn’t consider acceptable.
Although we did have a lovely week, all these factors added together did reduce our enjoyment of the property.