We stayed there for 14 nights between August 24 and September 7 2019. The place outer courtyard is nice and the location if very nice. The house is small and the upper part is very mansarded thus very small. We did not had a good communication with the owner who was rude to us and restricted our access to the propriety to the courtyard, although in the tripadvisor (the oner had deactivated the listing) is advertised as 5 hectares.
Issue number 1: the announcement that the propriety sits on a 4 or 5 Hectares of land is a lie and a major mislead that actually made us finalise the booking among other options we had.
Due to the size of the propriety mentioned in the listing and everywhere in the comments and description, we imagined that we can let our kids play everywhere in a safe and enclosed space, owned by our host.
The reality was that we were explicitly forbidden to cross the boundaries of the driveway and the courtyard at our rental level.
Issue number 2:
Even if it is advertised like that, there is no direct access to the beach, you have to exit the propriety into the public road and walk cca 50 meters to the beach.
For us direct access to the beach means you open a gate of your courtyard and you are on the beach. The situation on the filed was that, we werent allowed to get close to the beach line in cca 10 meters, the wall of the terrace was continued with a series of flowers, limiting our access to that area. We could only see the beach from afar.
Several other issues:
- the shower has no own light
- the clima device in the kids room smells bad and we could not use it
- the barriers and the gate are complicated and take too much to open and close (cca 15 minutes) , plus there are a bunch of locks it takes some time to figure out which to use.
For the value for the money the living room is very small, the flat TV advertised as very large is same as my computer monitor, but 10 years older, there is nothing you can do if it rains. The furniture in the living room is not comfy and is very small.
Everything in the house clicks and snaps laud when used.
The toilet is at the upper floor, is very loud, especially in the night, the toilet seat (which we were told so many times not to press it because is automatic) makes a very loud noise when closing.
The toilet has no windows and the ventilation is insufficient. Additionally is very hot in there.
The advertised window overseeing the propriety is less that an hand in height
There are 3 camping's in the area, one right across the street. The first week, they were very loud up to 10 PM. after that, because french holiday was over, not so much.
The owner had several visits late in the evening, with dinner outside and we could hear them talking in french much louder that we could hear the waves and the sea.
Conclusion:
While the surroundings are nice and the weather was with us most of the time, good wine and food, the experience we had staying at the place was way under my expectation for the price. read more