This villa is very smart, beautifully designed and feels really luxurious. It’s perched at the top of a mountain so has an incredible view out to sea. It has all the things you need for your stay and a gorgeous little pool to lie beside in the sunshine. Christina is super helpful as we arrived without a car and a little early - she came immediately to collect us and then took us to the supermarket and then picked us up and took us home again. It was extremely kind of her and meant we were able to fully stock the fridge and relax for a few gorgeous days. She also took us to the airport when we left.

This was fine with us as we wanted to walk and managed to work out how get a taxi to take us nearly home, but the property is up a mountain so the last couple of hundred metres the road is small, very winding (hairpins done as 3 point turns) and unfinished. Christina obviously knows how to drive it but taxis needed a bit more persuasion and I think it could make you quite tense if you’d just got into your hire car. It’s probably just the French way but we were surprised to find that we were expected to supply our own toilet paper, but Christina helped us with that as the supermarket is 8km away (there is a very small one 1.5 km away down the hill). We were also surprised that there was a charge for towels, something we are used to being included. The security deposit we also found quite baffling. On here it says it’s €500 in cash but when we booked we were then told it was €1000 by cash or cheque. Not really wanting to have or carry that much cash (although we did need some as taxis, for example, do not take cards here), we found a chequebook and signed the inventory and passed the inspection at the end, but it all just felt odd. I prefer AirBNB’s approach where it’s in the terms that breakages are reported, discussed and paid for.