We booked Antonio’s house because we wanted to stay in the Basque region near Bilbao but needed a house big enough to house two large families - 4 adults and 7 teenage-ish children. As we had so many kids to keep entertained, we were keen to find somewhere with plenty of outdoor space to run around in and ideally a swimming pool. There was not a massive choice on Airbnb but Antonio’s house ticked all the boxes and it worked really well for our 6 night stay. In terms of sleeping, 4 children slept in a large open plan bedroom on the 2nd floor. The adults slept in two double rooms on the 1st floor (both with balconies, one en-suite) and 2 more children in a twin. The final child was in a small double bedroom on the ground floor. The mattresses are all new and firm and I found them very comfortable. There are three bathrooms (one on the ground floor, two on 1st floor) which worked OK especially as some of the teenagers got up later than others! The rest of the house consists of three rooms on the ground floor, a large TV room, a relatively small kitchen and a dining area, although we ate outside for nearly every meal. (Note this is a semi-detached house but the neighbours were away). Outside is brilliant as there is a very large covered patio area where you can comfortably set up tables to seat 11 without encroaching on the games. The latter consists of table tennis, a pool table and table football, all of which can be used at the same time. I particularly enjoyed rekindling my love of table football, possibly because it was the only one I was any good at! The swimming pool is very clean and a reasonable size but is not heated. However this did not matter at all as even on an overcast day in the Basque hills the air temperature is warm and the pool is very refreshing. There is also a barbeque area at the back of the garden which we used quite regularly. It is very basic but works well once you get the charcoal hot. The location is great if you want to get away from the city and up into the hills and it is only half an hour or so from Bilbao but San Sebastian is about a 2 hour drive. There is an excellent supermarket (Eroski) in Zala about 15 mins away. There is a train into Bilbao from a very local station but we didn’t use it as it is quite slow and infrequent and we had cars. I have a handful of other observations. The house is quite basic and dated in terms of décor and mod-cons, although this did not really matter as we spent nearly all our time outside. The WiFi is not very strong and can only handle basic texts and WhatsApp and the TV did not have many English channels...