We had 3 requirements when booking our villa 4 bedrooms, pool and a hot tub, so were extremely disappointed on arrived to find that the hot tub was not working. Chantal's arranged for her son to come to check it and we were told 'it was very old and was now completely dead and to contact his mum to arrange some compensation'. We did, to have the unhelpful response of 'breakdowns happen, use the pool instead'. I explained that as we had paid for a hot tub, we did expect it to be working, but this just fell on deaf ears. It was unhelpful and frustrating. On arrival there was also a live socket, with wires exposed, pulled out of the wall that took several days to repair- - luckily, we had no children in our group - not sure how the property got sign off with in this state. The villa had lots of nice thing like space to spread out, main house plus 2 separate self contained blocks, nice eating area and nice pool, the washing machine was great. Not so nice was the day bed, of which looked like the cover hadn't been washed in weeks, the constant ant problem in the kitchen, luckliy we had been left ant spray to keep it under control, Wi-Fi didn't reach the sperate accommodation, crumbling plaster in one of the bedrooms and plaster repairs waiting to be sorted in the main house, the doorbell had paper towel stuffed into, i guess to stop it from constantly ringing, outside seating areas were badly stained with cushion covers threadbare, lights and sockets around the property that didn't work, broken table tennis bats - nothing major - but when all added up, not quite the luxury villa you think you are getting. It just needs some TLC. The villa is currently up for sale, so it just seems to be ticking over until sold. Palm Mar is a VERY QUIET area. There were no water sports here. There was a nice variety of restaurants and several small supermarkets. The beach is mainly rocky with a small sandy area, but not really suitable for small children. Best bring water shoes to save your feet! We did book taxi's into the main towns that cost around 15/20 euros each way plus tips. Although the villa can sleep 16, this is at a push. 10 adults max (with 2 on bottom bunk beds), the rest would be for small children. There are only 6 sunbeds (plus the manky day bed), so it would be the 'towels at dawn' race, although there were also a variety of other plastic chairs and beanbags for everyone else.
