6/10 Okay
Norma M.
11 Sept 2018
Mixed feelings
The house itself is beautiful and well located.The views from the tower are stunning.The gardens are lovely and the vegetation around the house is gorgeous. The area is nice and quiet. However, we had mixed feelings about it and I'd like to be as fair as possible about this review. It was great to be so close to the beach especially because we had 3 children with us (nine people in total). The house is spacious but has a strange lay out and is in need of attention. The water pressure in all toilet cisterns was weak and also in all the showers, except for the shower upstairs which was excellent. Some of the door handles kept falling off. It wasn't possible to lock some of the bathroom doors for privacy. None of us stayed in the outside cabin. The lighting inside the cabin was very poor; there was no ceiling light, only some very dim lights. Two of us (aged 15 and 20) slept in the room downstairs that has no direct access to the main house. We had to give them the backdoor keys. This room was in a terrible condition and should not have been made available. There were signs of water infiltration in the walls and a strong smell of dump. We felt sorry for letting the boys there but there was no other way as they felt that staying in the cabin would be worse. We had an adult and a child in each of the two rooms that are actually inside the house. The bathroom of one of rooms has a door that leads to the utility area and can't be closed. They placed a tall fridge in front of it but the door remains a bit ajar as it can't actually be locked. I stayed in the separate flat upstairs with my two children (age 18 and 11). We all slept in the same bed and not that well. There was a spare single bed/sofa in the living room upstairs but no curtains in the many glass doors/windows in there and the air conditioner was in the bedroom. We also had problems with flickering lights on the veranda and in the tower. The light in the tower could never be switched off and flickered all day and night. I think the wiring needs to be looked at. The gentleman who greeted us with the keys was very nice and helpful. We were grateful that there was mineral water to drink when we arrived and we reciprocated by leaving some there. We used the kitchen downstairs which was small but well equipped. It would have been nice to have some floor mop or cloth in case anyone spilled anything on the floor. Overall, it's a good house which has the potential to be much better.
Norma M.
Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2018