Just back from a fantastic week in Istria. The villa was exactly as described in the website, and while our initial correspondence with the property manager via the website/e-mail took ages, (I guess he was very busy) once he put us in touch with Ana she was brilliant. and answered every text immediately. She had lots of tips about traveling to Croatia (during the current COVID pandemic) and great information on nice beaches, restaurants, etc close by. The house was clean and had plenty of towels, cleaning products, etc. The kitchen had most appliances you could ask for and the wifi worked brilliantly (we had teenagers with us!).
The area is wonderful, with a beautiful cove for swimming and stand up paddle boarding about a 6 minute drive. The local village had everything you could need and Pula was about a 30 minute drive.
We had a couple of small gripes: the main one being that there was a weird smell in a couple of the bedrooms. It went away if we left all the windows open (which you can't do at night ). but would be back in the morning. Apparently there was a lot of rain/flooding the week before we got there which was probably the reason and hopefully it was only temporary. Also, we rent lots of holiday homes and this is the first one I've ever been to without any sort of house-book/instructions. There were two leaflets for boat-rides (which were given away in every shop we went into) and that was it. No info on the local area, instructions on how the various appliances worked, etc. Would have been very handy rather than asking poor Ana every time.
And lastly, if you're going to rent a house with a pool, please provide a net so that we can skim it for bugs! The only net there was for tuna fishing, with very large holes, so made it very hard (but not impossible) to fish out the dead wasps.
Apart from the small gripes (which did not ruin our trip in anyway) we had a lovely time and would definitely recommend this villa to others.
