Not quite the holiday we had planned!
Review Submitted: October 20, 2009
Date of Stay: October 2009
Painter's Cottage provides enchanting accommodation ideal for enjoying Madeira. It is in an excellent location near to the old town and its many restaurants. The cottage has a spectacular view across town and on to the harbour. The bedroom is a good size with a very comfortable bed and pillows. The bathroom could do with a little refreshing and the shower though excellent doesn't have a shower screen or curtain. The balcony is beautiful with excellent views and a barbeque and also has a comfortable hammock for the afternoon siesta. The kitchen has most things you need but no oven; Cristina (the owner) ensures that some essentials stock the cupboard to ease your stay.
Madeiran weather is neither too hot nor too cold and air conditioning isn't really essential however we did have a few mosquitoes and were planning to get an over-bed mosquito net the next day. We had also planned to ask that the pool cleaning and filtration unit was back up and running but first thing on the following morning we were disturbed by a gang of workman who had unexpectedly turned up to re-roof the owners house following some recent storm damage. Clearly this situation was quite inconvenient for our holiday week so Cristina quickly rearranged our stay to another apartment hotel at the other end of town: it wasn't quite what we had planned but rescued a weeks holiday.
Having spent so little time in Painter's Cottage this rather feels like an unfinished holiday but we may look to book again next year.
Owner's Response: Thank you for your review, and for your wonderful attitude. The week before these guests arrived Funchal had 2 days of freak intensive rain, and this caused some of the roof in front of the Painters Cottage to collapse, and before the winter arrived we were told it was not an option, the roof had to be re-tiled that week. I´m glad to say it was finished last week, with their cooperation. When we saw that building work would disturb their holiday, I immediately made a few calls to get a nice sea-front apartment with breakfast, to try and make this change into an upgrade. My family stayed there and enjoyed their holiday so I thought it would be the nicest option, I´m very happy they considered this rescued their holiday, as it was my biggest concern. I´m glad to say that Painters Cottage has a lovely new curtain for the bath, and that the battery in the pool was replaced (this was why it had not worked over the weekend). The mosquito season should be coming to an end now, as they are all over Funchal, but with some repellent and the help of an electric racket they should not bother you. It was certainly not a normal Painters Cottage holiday these guests enjoyed, but the important thing was that their holiday was a success, which was our focus.
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