Famara Beach House

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : Famara village is unique place and we never lived in a similar house. The area is windy and sandy, so prepare to have sand everywhere (for example in the morning our car was covered with sand, as well as the whole are in front of the house). We stayed for 4 days and this was not a big problem, but if you stay for a month, then you have somehow to live with this. The house looks pretty old, but it's normal for such location. Inside it's better, then outside: you have kitchen, living room and 3 bedrooms, for 6 people + sofa. Wifi was ok in all rooms. The location is very close to the beach, about 50 meters. To get to the house you need at first to park outside of the village (29.114603, -13.552279), go to the house, take the keys + radio device to open barrier from secret place. Then you return to your car and enter the village via the second street (29.114259, -13.551394). In La Caleta village we took "take away" food from Grill la Posada In the next house (#2) Pedro Almodovar filmed Broken Embraces if you are interested.
  : The soundproofing is not the best, from one of the bedrooms you can always hear neighbours.

Poor
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : Nice to stay at Famara, the beach is wonderful.Had good hot water supply.
  : I paid over 900 for a week, and the property just wasnt up to that standard. Couldnt use half the wardrobes and kitchen cupboards because they smelt of mould. Wasnt able to put clothes in main wardrobe.Property is one house divided into 2. The windows in one bedroom above the bunk beds open directly onto next doors toilet! Weird, both for being able to see into their bathroom or that house being able to see whos sleeping on top bunk!The washing machine is in the other apartment so if you want to use it, you have to text the owner and they arrange for you to go into someone elses house to use it, I felt this was not how it was advertised, sometimes I just wanted to quickly wash swimming stuff but it was a hassle.The pool is quite small & great for one family but I was not comfortable sharing it with another family- pool is in the next door apartment, we didnt use it after the other family turned up. I thought I was paying for a private apartment with private pool.Both Showers flooded the bathrooms & bathroom door wouldnt close, owner came round to fix cutlery drawer while I was there & did make an effort but it wasnt ideal to spend over 900 to tell the owner all the faults with his house..We found a camera not switched on, hidden in a childrens toy building block, which the owners assured me was for their own use but it didnt make me feel comfortable staying there with my kids. I spent about 4 days trying to get through to booking.com to complain and say we wanted to leave. Was just told to speak to owner directly. Was told we were not entitled to any refund or discounts. We left a day early as werent relaxed.Many of the issues would be understandable if it was about half the price.