6/10 Okay
David K.
1 Oct 2018
Nice Villa but with some issues!
The villa was easy to find, their were 2 local people there to greet us, one spoke average English, neither were the host. The villa was warmly and had most amenities, but could do with freshening up as it was generally looking a bit tired! There was a broken toilet seat which we requested to have replaced but we had no response from the host. Similarly the primary light in the bathroom went out half way through our holiday and it was too high up for us to replace, again we requested it to be fixed but it was not done - disappointing! One evening early into our holiday we were cooking our own meal using the inside electric oven and the whole electric went off throughout the villa. We had inadvertently tripped the mains switch out in the street by having too many items on at any one time, but since we did not know where this mains switch was, we had to phone the host to come out and switch it back on. We were in total darkness for approx. 30mins. Our point here is the hosts should have provided a guide covering this problem and where the main switch was - then we would not have had to have bothered our host. We were censured by the hosts for leaving the security gates open when we were out in daytime/early evening - fair enough, but had they informed us when being shown around by the hosts representatives then we would have observed their house rules. Again an internal guide book/villa rules etc. would have been useful, this could also contain local amenity info./restaurants etc., and importantly doctor/hospital/police contacts for emergencies! The villa's location whilst close to the local beach which was very nice indeed, was positioned on a local road junction, which meant at times a lot of heavy traffic, lorries etc., so noise nuisance was an issue, also getting out of the villa's driveway with a car turning left into the mouth of the junction was
also a problem. It would have been nice if the host had made an appearance to say hello (albeit she could not speak English), but were it not for our loss of power I don't think we would have seen them! Our time in the year of arrival (mid Sept.) meant that there plenty of mosquito's and wasp's about, so we could not take advantage of the outside patio/barbeque area's - which was a pity. We were asked to water the garden every couple of days, but we felt that this was not our responsibility, the host had a gardener, so it should not be left for the guests to do. Overall 3/5 im afraid
David K.
Stayed 12 nights in Sep 2018
