Glory long lost. The advertisement states this is a recently renovated luxury apartment. Well, I believe it once was! Unfortunately the apartment lost it's glory and the owner was not able to effectively and willingly help improve things. First the positive side: the arrival was super. The owner is a friendly man, bought us a bottle of wine, bread and a special cheese. Very nice. At first the pictures seemed to show what you get. At first... more on that later. The location the view and the swimming pool is fantastic. It was a bit weird that he was surprised that we were with four: 2 kids below 6 years. It was clearly noted in our request. Anyhow the owner quickly ran to get us a sleeping cot and a child seat.
Then the less fortunate things: during the week we started to notice some flaws that started to grow bigger and bigger and we not correctly addressed: the apartment has a major mould issue. It started off with smells. Then we noticed the bathroom was always wet, the ventilator was not effective and was duck-taped in the ventilation shaft. Clothes, towels nothing dried anymore, even not when we dried it outside first. When we washed our clothes at the laundry machine in town, dried it and put it in the closet it felt never fresh and dry. I notified the owner that there were problems in the bathroom: the shower frame fell apart, the shower door was not correctly fixed, there was always water behind the toilet and the temperature of the shower was only stable when it was fully on. That later part was problematic with a child of not even 2 years old, especially the unstable water temperature going from very hot, to ice-cold! The owner came rushing down with some screwdrivers and silicone seal, but not really listened to the issues. So his own "repairs" were not effective at all. The closet below the sink was unusable, because there was a very penetrant mould scent. That is when I realised that this house had a problem. I remembered though from the pictures the bathroom was once super nice. Then it turned out for some reason that very nice tiled bathroom was plastered over unprofessionally very quick and rough and the luxury shower wall was removed. During the week we started to notice mould on the walls and in other places, for example the upper rim of the freezerdoor seal. That this mould issue became a major issue manifested most clearly at the end, because after 18 days even our suitcases stored next to the bedroom closet were infested with mould. Next to where my baby was sleeping... I was not amused and again notified the owner, somewhat direct, but I think fair. Since then he did not respond anymore and even did not retrieve the keys after our stay. We just left it behind and pulled the door. Also the kitchen was clearly put together unprofessionally: everything is misaligned, although in my opinion that was not a major issue. In the end we (especially my daughter) were most happy to leave, while we hoped to get something nice for almost 1900 euros.