Arenyslux II

Very Good
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children

Fair
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple
  : Pleasant, quiet location, not far from some lovely restuarants. Easy to drive to, great train links up and down the coast. The outside roads and little port where very clean. The building that the apartment was located in was very pretty. It had 3 balconies which was lovely.
  : The apartment, on first glance was stunning - until you looked further. The aircon and TV controllers were absent and therefore they could not used. Not helpful in 28*C. There were bare electrical wires, there was no lighting in 1 bedroom at all. The ceiling is bowing in 1 bedroom and looked unsafe, as if it would fall done. There were bare electrical wires in this ceiling as well.The main door is a very heavy oak door, extremely tight fit into the doorframe and has NO handle inside. Making it a nightmare to get out, and we ended up compromising and using a bottle opener to open the door. This would have been very dangerous should we needed to have evacuated swiftly in an emergency. The fridge leaked all week. The kitchen extractor did not work. The bathmat was about 12 inches square with a cigarette burn hole in it. The shower was in the bath, which is fine - unless there is no anti-slip mat. So dangerous. The balcony balustrade is wobbly and would not be safe for children. Finally the owner advertises parking. What he doesnt say until a couple of days before you are due to use the apartment and then you get an email to say its 10 euros a DAY ! When you arrive there is no welcome info, no info about emergencies, healthcare, owners direct phone number, nor instructions on how to use any electrical equipment, stove etc

Pleasant
Traveller Type: Solo Traveler
  : The apartment is quite modern and spacy. It has a really nice view over the port and in the morning there is sun on the balcony.
  : It feels like the train is rushing directly through the apartment. Im used to a lot of noise as I live right next to the metro. But the windows in the apartment are so bad that I woke up everytime the train rushed by. Last train is around 1 am and first one at 5.30 am. It is really awfully noisy.

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple
  : the balcony and locations.

Pleasant
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : The location is great! So is the view and the historical building. The lady managing the place was very kind and went the extra mile to make sure we received the baby bed & highchair (the owner had apparently not told her that we need it...although I wrote a message to the owner 1 week prior to our arrival). The door to the flat seems to have been recently fixed, it worked well. No open electricity plugs could be seen, but one plug seems to have just been covered up with cement (not done with attention to detail but at least no safety hazard for kids). A crack in the ceiling was fixed recently but it's already reappearing - maybe it's due to a leak of the flat upstairs?!
  : The train is really loud, especially in the 2 bedrooms facing the railway tracks. Communication with the owner through booking.com was not helpful. The answer was simply: contact the manager through WhatsApp (which then worked, but it would be nice if the owner also put some more effort and kindness into the communication with his clients). The check-in can only be done on a website where you have to supply fotos of passports, selfies (no idea why that was necessary?!) & signatures. Keys were in the letter box. Only one set of keys by default - you have to ask for a second set. The confirmation E-Mail upon booking a few months back had the information that the deposit was payable in cash, however the owner wanted me to send him my credit card details - which seemed unprofessional. I would have preferred to pay the deposit and the tourist tax directly with the initial booking. The official pictures of the flat on booking.com seem to be a few years old. Quite a bit of furniture was replaced (with a different style). To me there was too much clutter in the flat - not handy with little kids (we put it all decoration away so nothing would break). It just seems like the flat needs a good maintenance to upgrade it back to what it must have looked once. Especially the kitchen appliances need a lot of love (not one frying pan was intact - so we didn't cook!) The main front door to the building is a challenge to open, but after 1-2 minutes we always managed to get in. (To be fair a maintenance guy came to try to fix it but there was not much change). The shutters could not be closed properly in every room (some handles were not functioning anymore) and the shutters kept losing some pieces of black seal every day which led to sticky stains on the balconies. Would be nice if the shutters had been functional, especially to keep the heat out in the hot summer months. Only the living room had air conditioning and the other rooms get VERY hot!

Very Good
Traveller Type:
  : Spacious good location for town and beach plenty of places to eat lovely views of marina and sea.amazing sky sun rising and moon rising over the sea at night.well equipped kitchen.comfortable bedrooms.
  : Train noise at 6am.frount door hard to open