Villa Mesquida is an enormous villa placed in a quiet area of porto colom. There is walking distance to both restaurants in the city centre and the nice beach Placa Marcal. We managed not to have a car thus the distance to shopping is a bit far. We preferred the large Eroski supermarket towards city centre and the small Spar up hill towards the beach to buy freshly baked bread.
The villa itself was an old style villa with around 500 m3 living area. The back of the villa is used for permanent residence, but not something we took notice of as they had entrance from the back road as well. The pool area was perfect. Nice size pool with up to 1.8 meters depth. Plenty of shaded areas and also good place for sunbathing. This was here we spend most of our time. Inside the villa there are 4 bedrooms with double beds on the first floor with two large bathrooms and one extra room with single beds in the far end of the houses ground floor. Appeared to be the old maid area. On the negative side: There is a lot of wasted squaremeters in the large hallways and dining areas which are never used. Many of the beds are super hard to sleep on and there are no air con in the sleeping rooms, which made it super hot to sleep as the outside temp. was 33 degrees. There were fans in the ceiling but they did not provide enough cooling to make it comfortable. The was one aircon for the entire house in the large living room next pool area, but there was no chance for it to cool just a small portion of the house down and the door to the pool area was always open, so we never turned the AC on. Over all the stay was nice, but recommend not to go in the hottest season and hope the owner will change matresses.
Tip: visit the cave just up the road. You can climb down and get a coom view of the light house through the opening.