We mostly enjoyed our stay at Sa Corbaia Nova. The view, surroundings and quietness are lovely. The garden is relatively big but unfortunately not well maintained and quite littered with plastic debris and beer cans. The house is spacious and light-flooded, yet its fixtures and furniture are of poor quality. In particular the fittings of bath tub and shower were hard to handle – probably they were completely calcified.
We especially want to point out three problematic issues: (1) While the janitor Pedro seemed a friendly person it was very hard to communicate with him since he only responded to whatsapp messages and this rather sporadically. On arrival we struggled hard (over several hours) to obtain an address of the house. (2) The house wasn’t properly cleaned before our arrival. In the bathrooms human hair and used toilet paper from previous guests were found, and the rest of the house seemed dusty and smelled unpleasant. (3) Furthermore, the garbage wasn’t picked up during our entire stay (7 days)! We were first asked by the janitor to take it to a garbage station ourselves which was several kilometers away. When we weren’t willing to do so, we were allowed by Bookiply (who we contacted on this issue) to leave it in the garage. Obviously, an unpleasant smell developed over the days, which diminished the pleasure of using the terrace or the pool.
After a thorough fix of the above-mentioned problems, the stay at Sa Corbaia Nova might become as pleasant as we originally had expected.