If you’re not here for Ironman/70.3 week, you may wish to reconsider…. If you are, as we were, it’s a great place to stay! 😀
Excellent communication with Joana and Mateu meant we were met exactly on time and shown into the light and airy apartment. There’s a lift for the luggage (and bike boxes), a balcony for reassembly of bikes, plenty of space (in bedroom 2) to store the suitcases and boxes and a wonderfully-equipped apartment awaiting your weary bodies.
Lots of storage space, fans, heaters, all the cutlery you could need, toaster, kettle, hob, oven, instant hot water, TV with plenty of channels (we stuck to Kerrang! for our pre-race tunes). Less than 5 minutes to the Expo, back in from the finish line, and slightly further along the road to LIDL or Eroski, with plenty of bars and restaurants on the door step. The finish line does obviously get very loud on the day itself (if you’re one of the slower participants, you won’t mind or notice!), hence the warning to non-competitors above, but otherwise all is great.
And the final mega plus point was our ability to check out very late as no one was arriving after us, so instead of having to sit in a cafe with loads of bags trying to make one coffee last 3 hours, we had a comfortable morning by the pool (forgot to mention the pool!), showered, cleaned up and left for the airport in a very relaxed manner.
Highly recommended!!