Although the beach was a little further away than expected, everything else was as described. The villa was clean and well resourced indoors, as was the outdoors with more than enough loungers, chairs and parasols to make for easy and comfortable sunbathing.
The villa was close to shops, bars & restaurants. There are several lovely beaches within walking distance and even more within a few minutes drive. Although not needed, we hired a car and being fairly close to the main coast road and motorways meant that we could easily get to places of interest. It's an easy drive to and from Alicante airport although we did get slightly lost right at the end as the directions didn't quite match up - or maybe we just didn't pay attention!
In advance of our holiday, the owner, Gary, was very responsive and helpful whenever we had a query, which really put our minds at ease.
Only two negatives:
1. The prohibitive cost of heating the pool (£500 for a week!) meant that my 90 year old mother couldn't use it all as it was too cold for such an elderly person.
2. Lots of mosquitoes that we hadn't encountered on previous holidays to the area
But overall, we had a wonderful holiday