Casa Manrique has many lovely features – a charming living/dining area and bedroom, a beautiful, wild garden, and an excellent location, plus it is kept very clean and has good pots and pans. Nonetheless, we did not enjoy our stay. This was because the listing, if not dishonest, was not straightforward; and in important ways, including ways important to us, it was misleading. We booked for six weeks, and it hardly seems unusual that for so long a stay the kitchen would be important; indeed, for us the kitchen was of the essence, as our Airbnb profile indicates. So it came as a huge shock that we did not have a kitchen of our own; not only did we have to share the cooking facilities with our housekeeper and her sister – each of whom was lovely, kind, and accommodating – but, in addition, the two of them ate their meals in the kitchen, where their TV was located. Often they would watch while preparing, eating and cleaning up their meals. All of this notwithstanding the lead sentence in the listing, “Entire home. You’ll have the house to yourself.”
Other deficiencies were of a piece. The listing has a picture of quite a large bath tub. But there is only a small water heater, and the most you could get was a couple of inches of hot water; in the result, we never could have a bath. So too, the garden is – justifiably - featured in the listing, but there were no garden chairs for enjoying it, only uncomfortable, upright metal chairs, with ill-fitting pillows. When we asked for proper outdoor chairs, the manager’s first response was that they didn’t have any. To this we responded that maybe they should get some. What ultimately arrived were two indoor chairs, quite comfortable, but so heavy it was difficult to move them out of the rain, or from sun to shade, and vice versa.

Finally, the oven did not function, and one of the bedrooms was musty, notwithstanding the general cleanliness.

Perhaps the property would be fine for a short stay, or fine for certain guests. But for us, it was not fine at all; indeed, we tried to move twice. We think it unacceptable that the listing was not more straightforward. People should be able to decide whether Casa Manrique, as it actually is, is for them.