We stayed in Toni's house for 11 nights in July/August 2021 as a family of four with two children aged 9 and 5yrs.
What was great:
Firstly the location is spectacular - the house has amazing sea views and is only a short walk down steps to reach the promenade and beach of Llafranc. It's also right on the beautifully maintained footpath that takes you to Calella de Palafrugell which is an easy 15 minute stroll.
Llafranc is a charming town with excellent restaurants and a beautiful beach. The sand is slightly coarse/crystalline in texture but perfectly comfortable to walk and lie on, and has the advantage of keeping the water very clear. There are plenty of fish to be seen and the rocks to the right hand side of the beach provide nice areas to snorkel and swim.
There are a good range of restaurants from Michelin starred to more simple Tapas bars. It's not the cheapest place to eat or stay but quality is high and the town's overall vibe is very relaxed and sophisticated. If you're looking for somewhere with raucous nightlife this isn't the place for you!
Toni was also a good host - his Pharmacy is a few minutes' walk down the steps into town so he's on hand for anything you need and he responded promptly to us when we asked for a few things which was much appreciated.
The house itself also has great potential to be a great place to stay - it's a good size with three bedrooms, a living room, bathroom and kitchen but it did have some areas we felt let it down unfortunately.
What was less great:
The house is very sparsely decorated and doesn't really feel like a very welcoming place to spend time. There aren't enough seats in the living room - just one sofa-bed and four dining chairs, so I don't know what you'd do if you did have more than four people staying there! The walls are mostly bare and, whilst there is a small wardrobe in each bedroom and some bedside tables storage space is fairly limited. There are no curtains for the windows (but there are outside metal security shutters) which does mean the house doesn't feel that private as the footpath runs along one side of the house and the road is along the other. People walking along the footpath can see in to the house easily if you don't close the shutters and there are people walking there most of the day and evening.
Whilst the kitchen was well equipped with an oven, gas hob, microwave, dishwasher and fridge freezer there was a real lack of things in the cupboards - we had only one red wine glass and a few taller wine glasses, there were only three cereal bowls and just two sharp knives (although both had bent tips and were both quite blunt).
We asked Toni if he could provide us with a tea towel and clothes pegs to hang washing on the line in the yard as neither were provided and to his credit he did supply those very quickly the following morning.
What was also disappointing was that, unlike many other Airbnb places we've stayed in, there was not much else provided by way of basic provisions - no bin liners, washing up liquid, oil, sugar, etc. The only items I can recall being provided were some dishwasher tablets, washing machine detergent and a single hand soap dispenser in the bathroom. This is a real shame as many can only be bought in larger quantities which guests are unlikely to need much of during a short stay and means that you need to go straight out to buy everything when you arrive at the house. We were also a little surprised to discover when we packed up to leave on our last day that the items we had left for the next guests like half a bottle of olive oil, hand soap, sugar, etc had all been cleared away. It may be that this was due to Covid cleaning but as other items like the hand soap in the bathroom and dishwasher tablets were left in place that seemed surprising.
The other issue we found was that the bed in the main bedroom was really quite uncomfortable and made a lot of noise whenever you got onto it, or even shifted position! The other beds didn't seem to have the same issue so perhaps it's something that can be fixed or adjusted and to be fair to Toni we didn't ask him to do anything about it during our stay.
The bathroom was of a good size and had a bath (with shower head), toilet, sink and bidet. It wasn't in great condition though - there were a number of broken tiles, the shower rail was damaged and the bidet didn't seem to have enough water pressure to use.
Overall I think Toni's house is a beautiful place to stay but just feels like it needs a few improvements to make it somewhere we could wholeheartedly recommend.