Luxury sea view holiday apartment
Review Submitted: June 30, 2009
Date of Stay: June 2009
The apartment itself is beautiful, brand new, and spacious. The balcony is large with lovely partial ocean views. The location of the apartment is close to the beach, which is nice. (The beach itself is sand but the there are pebbles starting about 10 meters in front of the water and continuing into the water.) In terms of getting around you'd want a car. (We didn't have one.) Without a car you could take either the train or the bus, both of which have their drawbacks: The train station is a hike. We walked it a couple of times and ended up taking taxis from the train station a couple of other times, which were 15-20 Euros. The bus station is closer, but buses stop running after 9:00pm.
Also, while we were there, the pool was closed the entire two weeks. I am not sure if the landlord knew about this ahead of time or not, but it was also closed for the previous tenants. I probably would not have booked the apartment without the pool.
Finally we had some trouble contacting the agents to look over the property together before leaving. This led to some disagreements over the condition of the property.
Owner's Response: It's really unfortunate about the pool, we did not know it was not working, it had been working before when we left and were assured it would be working before Jeff and his family arrived but it had a pump failure just before they arrived. We did not know the actual situation until part way through their visit, it took a few days for the new pump to arrive and be fitted, it then took some days to get the pool back in chemical balance, it opened on the Saturday that Jeff and his family left!
I agree about his comments regarding a car, if you want to visit the local area and you should because there are some spectacular villages close by, rent a car for a few days, the major rentors including EuropeCar will deliver and collect from the apartment and the apartment has a garage.
We'll check on why he had difficulty contacting the agents, they are available 24/7.
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