This is NOT a private villa! The building pictured above consists of two apartments which are booked separately. Booking through this link gives you access to half of the building, whilst the other half is rented out by other guests. This therefore means that the pool & games area are NOT PRIVATE/exclusive to you, but shared with the residents of the other apartment. The fact that this isn’t made clear on the website is outrageous!
When you are arrive, you are greeted with some additional costs - €15 to use the Internet, and €5 each in tax, and so for a group of 7 people we had to pay €50. This should have been made clearer on the website. My main question though is why are those costs not included in the price you pay for the villa online?
You are also given a list of rules when you arrive, which includes one where you can’t use the pool between 12:30pm - 3:30pm. It makes having a pool a bit redundant if you can’t use it during the peak hours of the day, especially when use of pool is shared with other residents as well.
A final criticism is that despite the website stating that the owner speaks English, the reality is that the owner doesn’t speak a word of English. We had to resort to one member of our party attempting to converse in French with him, which as you could imagine meant it was basically impossible to have anything explained to us or vice versa.
However despite all of that, there were several great things that should be noted. The location is fantastic; supermarket couldn’t be closer, very easy route to Venice and the weather was great during our week there. Furthermore, the pictures shown are accurate, and despite not understanding him most of the time, the owner seemed very nice.
Overall this is quite a harsh rating for a place that wasn’t that bad, but describing it as private is unacceptable.