Villa Ana y Garcia

I feel very bad leaving a negative, the villa has such great potential and the location is so special. BUT The kitchen is good and spacious has a lot of pots pans and crockery but the amenities are pretty poor. Only an old tired kettle, cord wrapped up in duck tape and leaking hot water everywhere. No coffee making facilities, a simple cafetiere would do, and no toaster, which should provide the basic for a holiday let. I had to use the only tea pot to make freshly brewed coffee, it didn't kill me tough! The beds are very uncomfortable with mattress, bed linen and towels old and tatty. There was a very bad drain smell coming from the outside/utility room shower, which seems to have subsided toward the end of our stay. However, in the last two days one of the bathrooms started smelling pretty vile. There's two safes in the house none provided with an access code and out of use. No clear indication of where to park the car and the front porch was very tight so it has taken a bit of manoeuvring to get in, but all fine, could be a bit intimidating if you drive a SUV. Luckily (or not) the owner 'blessed' us with two unannounced visits and told us that there's additional parking outside the house past some field gate. No clear indication of where to go and dump the trash, other than the green bins which are actually few km away from the property, or not, but we wouldn't know as the villa is quite in the middle of nowhere. Oh and check out is at 10am on the dot, we got 'evacuated' by the owner and his gang of cleaners at 9.58am which was a rather uncomfortable situation, having to zip up our luggages on the front porch. Thank God I had my pants on, wish i'd say the same about my husband when he bumped into the landlord at 8.30am one of the days! It is such a shame, the villa and location has so much potential, sadly the amenities are not great, and lacked comfort for my standards.

The small roads to the property take a little getting used to, but Google maps were useful finding the best routes & all the minor roads in this region appear similar. Fortunately the villa was easily accessed right on a very quiet minor road & the booking agents were readily contactable if needed, but no problems for us, so minimal contact required.

Very difficult to find the villa the roads to it are not for the faint hearted steep gradients and difficult to pass on coming traffic and no reversing on some parts if you do get lost. A sign showing villa name and direction would have helped.