The stay at carmen’s was disappointing. Firstly there was a broke shutter on one of the widows letting in heat. Secondly the kitchen didn’t have enough utensils (like only one tiny knife which made cutting into a watermelon impossible). The air conditioning is only in the living room so sleeping in the hot bedroom was impossible. The apartment is much smaller than described as we expected two bedrooms and 4 beds but only got 1 bedroom and two beds. There is no comfortable space to work on your laptop. Carmen didn’t provide us with enough toilet paper.
The building has two lifts which is great as you know you won’t have to take the stairs even if one breaks. It’s on the 8th floor so the view was amazing. Carmen was very quick at responding to our emails and so the communication was great.
There’s a big supermarket about 10 minute walk and a tiny shop a minute walk away from the apartment.
Let’s talk about the pool. This isn’t carmen’s fault but was a HUGE let down. We looked at prettier and cheaper apparments closer to the city centre but went for this one because of the swimming pool. However, we only went there once and never returned. As the swimming pool is shared with A LOT of people, by the time we went down there there were only a lot of neighbours, they were very rude and unwelcoming and decided to make us feel as uncomfortable as possible. Firstly, no one tells you you’re not allowed to have a blow up pool right because apparently the pool is too small for that (except there was no one actually in it at the time), second of all they all expect you were as revealing swimming suit as possible which both my girlfriend and I were uncomfortable. I had a bikini top and swimming shorts, while my girlfriend wore men’s swimming shorts and a swimming tshirt. We sort of had to argue with them to let us stay in there in the swimming costumes we had. Then one woman took a picture of us and when I told her not to she claimed she didn’t. The experience was so horrible we never wanted to go back down to the pool. If we knew about this we wouldn’t have booked Carmen’s accommodation and would have went for a cheaper and nicer place as we didn’t even use the pool anyway. Not everyone is comfortable revealing a lot of skin when they go swimming and the neighbors and the lifeguard shouldn’t have treated us that way.