Improv - but not the comedic kind
The apartment (2 bedrooms, bathroom, living room, kitchen) is nicely situated on the 4th floor in the village of Portocolom. It boasts amazing views of the rocky shore and sea and has a balcony where the warm nights can be enjoyed. The apartment looks clean, and has the potential to be a great basis to discover some of the most beautiful calm beaches and villages the island has to offer.
That said, at entering the apartment a thick, funky smell can be noticed right away, which source is difficult to locate because the apartment looks very clean. However, the first night we would find the source. The apartment is airconditioned which is necessary in the hot Mallorca summer with a steady 32-34 degrees heat. The apartment has two aircon units, one in the hallway (we are still contemplating its purpose) and one in the living room, for which u pay an additional 7€/night as stated in the advertisement (why this is not included in the rental price still annoys us). However, the power of these airconditioning units is hardly enough to cool down any of the bedrooms. Temperatures inside these rooms would not cool down below 28 degrees at night. Its was therefore we had to move the mattress into the living room for a improv camping - which brings back memories of camping with my parents - rendering the livingroom largely useless. The livingroom floor unit leaks severely and floods the living room (“this is normal, because its so humid, you should turn the aircon off” - landlord said) and made the electricity shut off several times. This is where the towels offered by the hosts came in handy. The couch below the livingroom unit was SOAKED (likely the source of the funky smell). A devilish trilemma: No sleep because of the heat, no sleep because of the flooding or no sleep because of condense water dripping into a bucket? The choice is yours, we chose the last option. Midnight toilet visits were made to empty quickly filling buckets of condense water to make sure we would not further soak the couch and living room floor which now contained our mattresses.
Make sure u bring all you need to clean the dishes, as there was no sponge, brush or soap (again, memories of camping), and bring binbags if you want to keep the house clean (comes with 1 small bin with 1 binliner).
I hate to sound sour, but I guess I am… At 200€ a night this is expensive camping. Would not recommend.