This August, we (group of 8) stayed in Juan's apartment for 12 nights. Let me start off by saying that we had a perfect vacation and Juan's apartment made this possible. I will outline below the pro's and con's we observed during our stay.
First of all, the apartment is extremely spacious. It used to be a fishermans house, which means the apartment used to be a big hollow room. Right now, it contains a floor that has been constructed into the apartment. This way, the apartment has 2 levels. This has been done quite professionally, but for one detail. The construction is done with steel and wood, but the wood is cracking so loudly that if people are walking upstairs you fear they will come crashing down on you. Especially at night, when people might have to use the bathroom, you can hear everything. Including the things you don't want to hear. This also means it is only possible to sleep if everyone goes to sleep, otherwise you'll be kept awake by all the noise. Anyway, it didn't really bother us that much and all the space the floors provided made up for it!
Second of all, the facilities the apartment provided were outstanding! There was a dishwasher, a washing machine and a dryer. More importantly, they all worked perfectly. The kitchen contains a spacious fridge and freezer, has enough plates, glasses, cutlery and pans. It even has an induction plate to cook on. The bathrooms were clean and worked all fine, although the shower upstairs started to clog halfway our vacation. It wasn't the sand, because we emptied the trays that contained the sand. Probably just requires some drain cleaner. The only thing we stumbled upon in the kitchen (and on one occasion even in the sleeping coach) were the permanent residents of the apartment: cockroaches. Obviously, Valencia counts numerous cockroaches thus it wasn't a surprise that we found some during our stay. Especially since the apartment has probably had guests that weren't the most cleanliness, and once a cockroaches enters the apartment it will never leave. What doesn't help is that the house is quite old, meaning it has plenty of space in the walls for cockroaches to hide. We just threw those we could find out, and the others are probably still the happy residents of the apartment.
Lastly, the apartment is located extremely close to the beach. This is perfect for when it's hot outside. During our stay, we had temperatures close to 40 degrees which didn't make walking outside a pleasure. Thus, the beach provided quite the opportunity to cool down a bit. The beach and the boulevard are very clean, which was a surprise since both of them are packed with people the entire day. And with the entire day, I really mean 24/7. Somehow, it's still very clean. Either people clean themselves, which I don't think they do, or the municipality of Valencia makes sure it's clean by sending people down there. I'm guessing it's the second one.
There was one drawback to the high temperatures we experienced. The airconditioning in the apartment was pretty good, but it couldn't cope with heat above 35 degrees. The hot outside air couldn't be cooled down by the airco to a nice 22 degrees. Consequently, it must've been about 26 degrees inside the apartment which meant people were sweating in their beds at night. I'm sincerely wondering whether a different airco could cope with the outside heat, though.
All in all, we had a very pleasant stay in Juan's apartment. The above comments are not to discourage you from staying here, but merely for you to keep in the back of your head. Our stay did not suffer from these factors at all. In fact, it made it memorable. Also, we are Dutch, meaning we always have something to complain about ;-).
Juan, thank you for the amazing stay at your apartment!