The villa was beautiful. Large, clean, and with a lovely view back towards Dubai. We were short supplied towels but the host sorted that issue reasonably quickly. Hence my review is 5 out of 10 instead of 1 out of 10 given the lack of resolution to the issue that we had, as explained...

Number 1 issue was that the outdoor wooden furniture had clearly been repainted either very recently or not with the correct paint. As such, it stained some of our clothing and my wife and sisters skin!!! Despite immediately advising our host over whatsapp, this was not taken seriously by the hosts Mint Stay, and after our stay when I have complained they have simply offered to give me a discount off of a future stay!! We had to pay a 6k AED security deposit, and I am sure that if we had damaged something in the villa they would have deducted the full replacement value immediately from my security deposit. However, when it is the other way around, they offer a discount off of a future stay! That does not seem like a reasonable stance to take. I was even challenged that we should have not been sitting on the OUTSIDE furniture with wet clothes, when the villa has a pool...! In any case, not everyone who had staining due to the furniture had yet been in the pool so the staining was nothing to do with wet clothes. I have videos taken the following day to show that whatever the furniture had been painted with was coming off on to anything that came in to touch with it. Basically the issue was ultimately ignored and no recompense offered for damaged clothes or inconvenience.