Our family of 2 adults and 2 kids (ages 5 & 1) together with another family of 2 adults and 2 kids (ages 10 & 8) had a great time in the house. I'll sum it up in pros:
+ Big house. Seldom felt tight at 8 persons.
+ Nice pool, good size on it. Loads of shade to work with.
+ Great parking abilities in an open garage (in the shade) for multiple cars.
+ Excepetionally good storage abilities in all of the rooms.
+ Efficient and big kitchen.
+ House very clean & fresh in general.
+ Dishwasher from a premium brand, worked very well.
+ Loads of bathrooms & toilets, all of them big and satisfactory.
+/- We knew this, but there was no aircondinditioning at all. A house in northern Italy where it very well could get up to 40 degrees celcius (we had 30-34 during our week) was really, really, bad. Horrible to be honest. 1 week of sleep-deprivation.
+/- The sofas/couches in the living room were big and comfy. But one of the armchairs was like sitting on sandpaper.
+/- You almost needed a 4×4 car to actually access the house. The road up to the house were in incredibly bad shape with loads of potholes and you could barely squeeze your way through with the car. It was doable, however this should be mentioned in the ad.
+/- There was a big awning on the porch by the kitchen. However this worked so-so-well, wind caught it very easily and you had to be really careful using it. To wind it out was a bit of a challenge too.
- House was really huge, actually divided into 2 floors. Downstairs (with separate entrance) were other tenants. Not sure if permanent or tourists like us. However them SMOKING CIGARETTES was really, really upsetting us. Super turn-off in general and spoiled our whole holidays a bit. So sad.
- No shaft for the broom?!
- Not enough of outdoor furnitures for merely 8 persons. Such as sunbeds at pool area, chairs at dining area and places to sit at couch area by kitchen porch. Imagine if we were to be 10 persons or 12, as there were beds for that many, how would that have lasted...
- No wifi coverage at pool area.
- No lights at pool area.
- The coffee machine was too small. It was a mini-model with non-standard size coffee filters.
- Only 1 fly-swatter which was broken (loads of flies).
- Gas stove not working 100%.
- Garbage bags (big ones!) not included.
- Bad water pressure everywhere. Took about 20 minutes to fill up the bathtub upstairs with 10 cm of water.
- Local guy who sorted the logistics did not speak a word of English.
