This will be a very detailed review to help future guests with their booking. We booked this Villa in 2020 for my Hen but thanks to Covid the wedding was postponed. Thankfully Paco moved the date across and this weekend we celebrated my Hen with 15 of us at Villa Versace. Our flight landed 2 hours before check in and we were allowed to check in early which was great.
1. Fridge is rubbish, does not stay cool. For the price you pay for the Villa, we expected a half decent fridge to keep our food cold and safe to eat.
2. Electricity went off 8 times in the 3 days we were there, all during cooking and when nothing was being used. We were outside for hours and the electricity was still going off. So if attending the Villa with a large group, be prepared for the electricity to keep tripping. Extremely frustrating for myself and my guests but we made the most out of a bad situation.
3. The large room located on the photos with the wooden beamed ceiling is not in the Villa itself. It is a seperate guest house located on the grounds of the Villa but is about a 25 metre walk. This is not stated in the description of the Villa which is very important.
4. The door to this seperate guest house was extremely poor and after a night out me and my girls were locked out of our door at 3am and the key snapped whilst trying to get in. My friend is currently going through IVF and her Progesterone injections were locked in so unable to get into the guest house. Paco thankfully said we could break down the door so we had to kick the door in to get through. This left the door unable to be locked after this so we had to pull our sofa infront of the door to feel safe when going to sleep. This is completely out of order that the door is so rubbish that it not only locked us out, but did not get fixed during our stay. Anyone could have walked through the entrance gates and stole our belongings.
4. Villa is extremely clean!! Which is great ofcourse.
5. Beautiful pool and surroundings.
6. The 'Outdoor kitchen' is rubbish and is just a typical bbq so we just bbq'd everything in the oven.
7. There is a water filter machine so not need to buy bottled water which is great.
8. Very quiet area, local supermarket 10 min drive and Palma 10 min drive. Magaluf about 40 min drive.
9. Paco was nowhere to be seen during our stay but did have assistants attend the villa when we communicated with Paco for help with the electricity issues etc.
10. For english guests, be prepared to translate pretty much everything on your phone for Paco and his crew. Major language barrier when trying to communicate issues within the villa that were extremely urgent to sort out.
11. Not enough sun loungers for large amount of guests, we did ask Paco's assistant for more and he said he would bring some but he never did.
12. I did have the most incredible hen and despite a few hick ups, i would definitely stay here again, may just be a bit more
prepared for the language barrier and electric issues.
13. I probably wouldnt have booked the villa if i knew 3 guest beds were located in a seperate barn 25 metres from the house.
14. The basement has been done out to be sort of a 'games room' but this looks extremely creepy and we only used it for the shower and toilet.
15. The bunch of keys provided did not state which key was for which door, you were just expected to guess.
16. I do think Paco and his crew did try and help us as much as possible with the issues we had experienced and it didn't ruin our time in the villa at all. We just tried to make the most out of our time here.
17. Be prepared to taxi absolutely everywhere or hire a car as it really is in the middle of nowhere.
18. There are horses on the property which are literally right next to the outdoor guest house. So someone will text you from Paco's crew to ask for permission to come and give water to the horses. Felt extremely sorry for the horses as they had no shaded area to go into such as a Stable or hut. Constantly outside in the heat so the living conditions for these beautiful horses were extremely poor.
19. Feel free to email me for any queries regarding this villa as i would have loved to have been able to have this sort of information provided prior to booking.
jess.hawthorn@outlook.com