House in Alhaurín el Grande

Pros: This villa is in beautiful surroundings of olive groves and the pool is lovely. The house is traditionally pretty and has potential, with comfortable beds, clean on arrival, and a good fridge/freezer and washing machine. Cons: the tranquility is interrupted some days with barking dogs for hours at a time, sometimes early and late, regularly woken at 3am to barking. Not sure if this is neighbours, the 3 kennels within 1km or a combination of both. One bathroom the surround of shower completely broken with broken sharp tiles making very unsafe to use, with leaking sink and ant infestation in that bathroom. We were 2 adults 3 children, but 6 adults may struggle with only 1 bathroom. Kitchen missing basic necessity like a kettle, toaster, decent kitchen knife, scissors, and the oven is faulty, door has to be weighed shut with something to work. The small replacement oven is not sufficient. The coffee maker leaks. Rosa said sorry sorry sorry when we arrived about the bathroom and oven. Whilst we were here we had no running water for 36 hrs then again 3 days later. Rosa tells us not happened before, due to repairs, and offered us apartment in town. But when we book a villa in olive groves we do not want an apartment in town. We asked VRBO to move us but their customer service was non existent. We would not stay here again unless the above alterations were made and will not be using VRBO again whose service when we asked to be moved due to water outage was non existent.

Amazing property, and private setting. Very clean house grounds and pool, very comfy new mattresses and the air con was fantastic, although rural, the near by town is under 10 minutes in car and has everything you could need, there was also a fantastic pizza pasta restaurant within 5 minutes. Rosa answered our questions straight away and couldn't be more helpful. Even to the point we arrived late on the first day and after having a look around we managed to lock ourselves out at around 2am with all our belongings inside ... Needless to say we panicked lol... after txting Rosa she arrived with the spare key within 10 minutes and showed us around. 5* all round

Lovely spanish style villa, very spacious with 3 bedrooms and a large pool. Very secure with electric gates and a car port. A car is a must as it does go out of town and into the country. The villa's garden is full of olive, pomegranate and lime trees. There are also 2 bbq's. Alhaurin el Grande is only 8 mins drive/taxi away and you can get to the major holiday resorts of Benalmadena, Torremolinos, Furengirola and Marbella within 30 mins. There are plenty of large supermarkets within a 15 mins drive and a smaller one in the town. The pool furniture could do with updating and more sun loungers but this didn't spoil our week. For the price this villa was fantastic.