There is unfortunately almost no redeeming features of this place.
The receptionist was nice, the beds are comfortable, the shower water gets really hot, the water pressure is good, the flat was well stocked in terms of cutlery and crockery, the middle 37 degree pool has an amazing temperature.
First off, the unit is much smaller and a lot more claustrophobic than what the photos show. If you sit on the couch, you can pretty much touch the TV. You have to suck in your gut to go around the kitchen counter into the kitchen and the 2 bed bedroom.
The shower and toilet cubicle are very small and the handle for the window slats in the toilet cubicle is rusted shut, so you can't open the window for fresh air or steam from the shower. The tap over the sink is so tight to the side of the basin, you can't even fit your hands under it to wash your hands. Everything is a bit sad and dated, and in need of some serious TLC. The toilet is permanently stained brown.
It's great that there are two rooms, but the wall between the two rooms doesn't reach the ceiling, and there is about a half a meter gap, which allows every snore and fart to be heard.
When we wanted to make tea, there was a cockroach in the cupboard. There were so many flies, but this cannot be helped, because they seem to be everywhere in recent years.
We decided to go swim, because this was the ONLY reason we came here.
The receptionist told us there is a big pool at 30 degrees, a smaller pool at 37 degrees and a smaller pool at 39 degrees. Perfect! No. Not at all.
It is very steep and treacherous walking on the wet driveway with no lights. From our unit to the reception is almost pitch black and very steep and muddy.
To get down to the pool you have to navigate about 50 steps and a ramp. Which means it's 50 steps back up. For someone older, heavier, and with mobility issues: this is an absolute nightmare. Even the unit had 4 steps to go to the bathroom, which I wasn't aware of. I suffered very badly and hurt my knee climbing all those stairs and that was the first and last pool visit for our entire stay on day 1. It was devastating. Apparently there is an alternative route to the pool. It's very poorly sign posted and we went into someone's yard and were chased away. Unfortunately this doesn't have less stairs and is not an alternative at all.
We decided to go to the warmest pool. It's about half a meter deep, but the water is only half filled and reaches your shin. Then you have to sit on the ground. There was no way my weight or age would allow this.
The second (middle) pool was a beautiful temperature. The first step into the pool is so very high, almost to my knee, that it took my husband and the railing to heave ho me out of the pool again, because it is just so high. There is no ledge or seating, you just have to stand around inside the pool.
After some 30 minutes, about 20 youths showed up with a heck of a hullabaloo. Splashing into the water, bombing, volleyballs flying all over the place. It was disrupting the calm we came for. We left straight after that and wasn't able to go again, because of the crazy amount of steps.
The wifi was awful. Absolutely terrible. So bad. Just atrocious. I used my data most of the time.
There is absolutely nothing else to do, apart from braving the many many steps to the pool. So we were in the small apartment the whole time.
Cars come and go at all hours of the day and night. It can be 2am or 6pm. It never stops. Being the first unit near the entrance/reception, it was very disruptive.
Just when we thought it couldn't get worse, this cherry picker arrived at 7:30am to do who knows what. It rumbled so much, it shook the whole unit. They beeped up and down and around it, screaming instructions to each other. It was crazy! 7:30am. Why? Nobody wants to wake up with a heart attack.
The lack of accessibility to the pool (for fatties and oldies like me), the small dated accommodation, the terrible wifi and the constant and very early morning noise, made this one of the worst places I've...
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