Stunning 3br flat by Costarentals - Ref 150

The apartment was beautiful and great location..

Excellent location, very spacious apartment.

The location of this apartment is fantastic! A 2 minute walk to the beach and 20 minute walk to the marina which we did every day and evening. Such a great selection of restaurants and bars and we ate at the marina every evening. The apartment itself is clean and modern and catered for our needs, we really liked the actual apartment. One thing to note is that the advert says ‘private pool’- it’s not! The pool is a shared pool for the apartment complex and is quite small with not much room for sunbeds. We went in October and it was too cold for us use anyway. What really ruined our stay, and it’s such a shame, was the noisy work being carried out which we were not pre warned about! There were painters and workers there every day of our stay from 8am-6pm making such a noise! We woke to machinery beeping and men shouting and this continued all day every day! One day, we woke to find the group of workers on our balcony and terrace!- again, we were not asked or told about this - there was paint and tools everywhere! The paint fumes made it unbearable to stay and we couldn’t even use our own apartment! This unfortunately meant that every day of our stay we had to leave our apartment and not return until 6pm. Yes, we had a lovely break and enjoyed Benalmadena, but we would have like to have been able to relax and enjoy our apartment too. I made several attempts to contact the rental company whilst there who did not answer the phone or reply quickly enough to my messages. On return, they agreed to refund me 126 euros as compensation. Whilst I am grateful for this small gesture, unfortunately it did not change the fact that our break was somewhat ruined by the noisy work being carried out. Finally, I would just add that the check in process was awful! We paid for early check in and arrived slightly earlier than expected. Again, contact with the rental company was poor. W head to wait to collect the keys from a key safe in a hedge!!!