Villa Chaves

Good
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : The swimming-pool and the pool table.
  : The indicated address and GPS coordinates were completely wrong. Several partially broken toilet seats and the semi-functioning shower. Weak WiFi, does not work in all the rooms.

Wonderful
Traveller Type:
  : Great facilities, excellent pool, well stocked.

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : Very nice house, big rooms, fully equipped, really everything from coffee machine to orange squeezer machine. Excellent location if you have a car, two minutes to get to the freeway nearby supermarket, very nice bar in walking distance. Parking (although somewhat challenging if you have a big car)
  : The house is really nice, lot of potential. Service and maintenance could be improved, those are small (yet important) things. We stayed for over a week, but have to call to get intermediate cleaning and towel replacement. Address and GPS location on booking is wrong (but points to a very nice bar :-)), we had to call in to get to the apartment (its next to the Banana factory). the owners can easily fix. Fridge was smelling of sour milk (but it took 2 minutes to clean), no spare trash bags (we bought a pack, its 2 euro at the supermarket). No trash bin for recycling in the house (Madeira has plenty of those) Nights can get cold in Madeira (in march at least) there was a mobile heater in one bedrooms only (out of 3). All those things can be fixed (and I am sure they will be fixed) with a bit more attention from the owners.

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children

Pleasant
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : The house is really nicely equipped. With nice pool, 6 sun chairs, outside barbecue area with table and chairs, large sunbrella. They did bring some big wooden logs, but then you have to do a little bit of DIY to get smaller ones to start the fire. Inside is nice living room, kitchen equipped with almost everything you need. There were few things missing so they brought it in a few days. They have slice toaster and hand blender just with knives attachment. Microwave is there, water heater kettle also and a quite a lot of dishes. Dishwasher is there as is washing machineboth with washing powder already there. Play room is equipped with pool table and football table. Every floor has toilet. Master bedroom has separate bathroom and other two rooms are sharing one. EDIT: please read my answer on Tania's commments on attached photo of the property, since Booking doesn't allow so many words.
  : Pool was dirty and full of algae when we came. It took one week for filtering to do its job and clean it as it should be! Good thing we were there for two weeks. Big mistake was also key delivery....we had to wait for hour and a half outside of property after 12 hours of travelling. Really disappointed for the amount of money we left them. Somebody should be waiting for us with champagne in their hands...if I can be sarcastic a little bit. Maybe they should add sandwich toaster and blender with whiskers in the kitchenand some SHARP big knives. For the house itselfwell, if you are a tight sleeper like a baby, than it is great, but if notwellthey have those sliding windows that are really terrible with sound isolationyou can hear everything from the street which is in front the house almost as you would have windows openso bear in mind. I would say that street is 4/10 for traffic density. So you get some sleep, between 23h and 6 a.m. :) Nearby Banana factory is not a problem. We did ask for some compensation for above "problems" with pool and keys and still didn't get any answer after 10 days. EDIT: please read my answer on Tania's commments on attached photo of the property, since Booking doesn't allow so many words.

Very Good
Traveller Type:
  : Very close to a shopping mall, host was very helpful in providing us with numbers to local taxi ranks.
  : Cleaners could have changed bedsheets after they came midway through the stay to tidy up the place.