Villa Carabeo San Salvador Nerja

Location was perfect.

The shower wasn’t properly sealed off and there was always excess water on the floor after it was used.

Wonderfully private gardens and pool.

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Property has a high quality finish throughout and the outdoor seating area's are well designed with mature gardens. The rooftop terrace has amazing views. Great central location, closest beach was a 2min walk.

We have walked past this property many times and thought the location was perfect and the setting ideal. The bedroom had a good set of wardrobes and air conditioning unit. The garden is pretty and well maintained.

We thought we had booked San Salvador which has a very high rating and indeed that is what was on our booking. However, be aware, the property is divided into 3 apartments - San Salvador, San Jose and Sai Gayatri’s. The photos show a selection of all three apartments and it is not until you arrive and are given the keys that you find out which one of the one bed apartments you are staying in. We were put in San Jose and were massively disappointed. The shower room is just too small with a tiny, oddly shaped shower cubicle and a small, awkward, blue basin with nowhere to hang/dry your towels effectively apart from outside which is no good when it rains and birds poo on them! The bedroom only had one bedside table and I ended up using my case to put my watch on - no dressing table for make up etc. The small kitchen/diner/lounge is dominated by an excess of very nice kitchen cabinets and an unnecessary American fridge/freezer but no dishwasher as per the description on Booking.com. This cramped room had an oversized sofa, bookshelves but no coffee table. There is a useful outside washing but the occupants of the other ground floor apartment commandeered it. The outside space is shared and we felt it necessary to keep the curtains drawn to maintain any privacy. We didn’t use the pool as it always had a cleaning machine in it presumably to clean it from the overhanging trees and the hot tub appeared to be out of use. Finally, we weren’t expecting to share the grounds with a dog when we checked that pets weren’t allowed. We were truly disappointed and felt we overpaid for mediocre facilities.

Stayed at San Jose Apartment in November it is one of 3 apartments in San Salvador building. The star of this place is the outside area; 4 separate places to relax in with beautiful trees surrounding and plenty of seating / sun loungers. The roof terrace gives an amazing view of sea. There is a small pool - we did not use it due to the water being too cold. There was also a hot tub however had sturdy covers on it so did not use. The apartment it’s self was cosy big enough for just the two of us, very well equipped with utensils, iron, board and hairdryer etc. The bed was super comfortable - a large double which was great. Big television and good Wi-Fi in the small seating area.

Sadly the the one thing that really let the apartment down was the bathroom. The shower itself was good however there was no shower tray just a red block of wood(?) with an inadequate drain, there was flimsy nylon shower curtain that wasn’t fit for purpose. The block of wood I think was to to hold back the water so imitating a walk in shower, I think ….it didn’t work and the result was a flooded floor every day when we showered. Luckily there were plenty of towels so we soaked up the water every day and left towels out to dry until the following day. We didn’t bother reporting during our stay as really as a major repair / putting in a proper shower tray would only work! we did report on day of leaving that some attention required. Would definitely stay here again but only after some work on the bathroom.