Apartamentos Buen Leon

Very bad damp smell in the bathroom. Very tired accommodation throughout. The local cleaners were lovely & did a good job, but this place is seriously TIRED and not been updated properly this century & we're ~25 years in! Lacking many basics. ZERO fire safety... in a fire the bedroom windows are heavily barred & you'd have to go through the kitchen... it's a death-trap that would get shut down or sued in many countries. If you accidentally slam the door it's self-locking with no outside handle and the owners have NO SPARE KEY! My fault, so I had to climb down through the skylight. Excessive security too having to lock and unlock the main gate 26th a padlock every time to get in or out in a very remote & safe area. And only ONE key so guests cannot go out separately! Clearly a tied holiday home shoved online to help pay the bills, but unveiling to reinvest. Zero heating or Aircon - Great most of the time but what if you're chilly on a wet & windy winter evening in together? We asked & were duly given a very old, smelly blanket with human hairs stuck to it still. Not the optimal solution. You may overlook all this for the location, but we've stayed in much better, cleaner apartments on Gran Canaria that were cheaper too in December. And yet with a little thought & some effort this could be an incredible stay & worth more than the current prices! We will keep an eye on it.

DO NOT book this apartment! It was full of little insects and when we expressed our displeasure with that, nothing was done further. We where there for about 1h when we decided to leave. We did not whant to sleep in bed full or insects. When we contacted the owner no action followed - they just ignored us. We asked for our money back but they just ignored our request and no action followed. This compleatly ruined our vecation bcause we had to look for other place to stay and lost the money.

The nearest shop (Coop) is located 15 mins drive away. There used to be a restaurant in the close proximity but it has permanently closed down.

So the accommodation is extremely remote - I’m all for peace and tranquillity but the energy outside the accommodation gate was weird. A pebbled beach but it didn’t look safe to get in. There was construction on the beach which just made you feel like you staying in the middle of a building site. No shop, restaurant, other human around which can make you feel a bit isolated. We absolutely wouldn’t advise getting there in the dark as we were not warned about how hard and weird it is to find - you are in the middle of nowhere in pitch black no lights and you have to drive through a dirt track with zero signs. And no signal so at one point we were a bit freaked out. We spent one day around the pool but then every other day we left and drove to other towns but nothing is less than 50 mins away beach town wise. The kitchen is fine but just be aware there is no cooking oil/ coffee, so be sure to take your own. Our front door did not open easily so we spent around 5 mins every time we wanted to get in trying to turn the key, would have been nice to be told about this or shown the trick to open it without struggle. Even with a car it’s just not ideal, the winds are so windy that we suffered travel sickness everytime we went anywhere. And narrow roads can be a bit testing to drive through with oncoming traffic. Despite this the owner seemed lovely but we couldn’t really communicate due to language but that’s fine!