A nice house with a garden

Der Empfang vor Ort war äußerst unkompliziert,freundlich und hilfsbereit. Das Haus ist im gepflegten Zustand mit zum Kochen gut ausgestatter Küche. Als Ausgangslage zur Inselerkundung ist die Lage empfehlenswert auch Einkaufsmöglichkeiten sind genügend vorhanden. Wir als Familie haben uns sehr wohl gefühlt!

We loved the house it is beautiful. Francoise the property manager was lovely and very helpful. The house is decorated very tastefully and has everything you will need. We loved sitting at the table outside for breakfast then moving to the comfy outside sofa for the afternoon sun. It's located about a 15-20 minute walk to the centre of Lajares. The Tiki bar is nearby and worth a visit, but our favourite was Canela Cafe. The market on Saturday morning was lovely. We went to El Cotillo beach most days. The electric mountain bike hire at Magma in Lajares is highly recommended. A walk up to the volcano is also fun. We will definitely return to Lajares and to this house.

Alles Bestens. :-)

Our experience was, I think, coloured a bit by the weather being cold at night, and sometimes damp. The house isn’t well set up for this: the bedding’s not warm enough, there’s no real way to warm the place up, and the inside is quite shady. Most of the year these would be non problems, of course. The house has an interesting layout, with an open sleeping platform above the main common area and another bedroom on the ground floor. There are two bathrooms, one containing a non-working washing machine, and a really nice outside area; the hammock here was a high point. It’s well arranged for a family or two couples. It’s a 10-minute walk into the centre of Lajares, and you can walk out into the volcanoes, too. The downsides are that there’s really nowhere comfortable to sit, though the open-plan area has plenty of room for a couple of sofas; the house feels just a little run-down, very much a second home that gets rented out rather than a properly maintained holiday villa; and the pillows on the beds. Pillows sound a small thing (and these were), but you spend a lot of time with your pillow! Each person is allotted just one cheap one each, a thing so lacking substance that if you rest your head on it, the stuffing runs away and you find yourself effectively lying on the mattress. This isn’t a super-cheap property, and I think the guests here deserve a little better. With a few small improvements - sofas, better/newer kitchen utensils and crockery, an investment in pillows - this would be a 4- or 5-star property. As it is, for us, OK but not great.