Stayed for 8 days recently for a family holiday. The villa is reasonable if you’re after a basic base to stay for your holiday. To be blunt, we wouldn’t ever return.
There are a few issues:
- the villa is positioned at the end of a mile+ long, barely drivable, dirt track which branches off the main road. It’s difficult to drive down, especially for those used to right hand drive cars.
- the villa is positioned a significant distance from anything. To go anywhere requires driving for at least 10 minutes and nowhere is within a reasonable walking distance. This is made worse by the need to continually use the dirt track.
- there are 4 bathrooms but only two with showers that can be used due to water pressure and an inability to provide hot water to one side of the villa. Given the amount of people the villa can sleep, this makes getting ready to go out more difficult.
- the kitchen is very basic and has no oven facility.
- the kitchen has an ant infestation, food cannot be left in even the upper cupboards without ants getting into it. We tried to treat with products from the supermarket but with little success.
- listed as having a hot tub but it’s a cold pool with some bubbles.
- this is of no fault to the host but still needs to be noted, particularly for those planning on taking children. There was an unbelievable amount of mosquitoes in the area around the villa and inside the villa. We’ve all suffered at least 20 bites each and it’s ruined the holiday to a large extent. Perhaps bad luck or perhaps due to the position of the villa (inland, extremely rural and surrounded by green shrubbery and moist marshlands).