Fabulous, except.....
Bewertung wurde gespeichert: 7. Januar 2008
Reisezeitraum: November 2007
Everything good that the agencies say about Mar de Amores is true. It is very private and secluded and yet conveniently located to town. If I'd known in advance that it was 15 minutes to the beach, I might have balked. But, you know, vacation time isn't like real life time, and to be honest, it just didn't matter. Fifteen minutes to the closest beach or 30 to the furthest just doesn't make any difference when you have a week to do nothing but snorkel and swim. The view, is truly amazing, I felt like I was in a dream as a sat at the kitchen table and watched the sun come up each morning. There are sliding glass doors across the entire south side of the house and one on the opposite side for a wonderful cross breeze. The property was equipped with everything we needed for cooking and grilling (it does need a pitcher for juice, though). All in all it was a very nice place to stay, except......
there is a real plumbing problem at the house. I realize that they do not advertise the Jacuzzi tub, but it is in the pictures. And if the only problem were that the tub didn't work, it might have been okay. However, the shower attached to the tub also doesn't really work, unless you count the sprinkle that you get out of it for 2-3 minutes at a time until the water pressure drops and you sit there freezing waiting to be able to turn it back on. The other shower isn't much better. It doesn't go off entirely when the water pressure drops but it goes down to a literal trickle. And, I hate to say it, but there is a definite sewer smell in the front hall bath as well.
And now I'm done being negative. We really had a fabulous time on St. John and look forward to doing it again some day. We might even want to stay at Mar de Amores if we can be assured a decent shower.
Empfohlen für:
Reisende 55+,
Abenteuer & Erlebnis,
Urlaub mit Haustier,
Frauencliquen,
Kulturinteressierte,
Familien mit Teenagern,
Familien mit kleinen Kindern,
Romantikurlaub
Vermieter-Kommentar: We are very sorry to hear about your experience at the villa and we wish we would had known at the time you were staying at the villa.
The villa does NOT have a plumbing problem. Let us explain what happened. Since there is no public water system on the island of St John, we storage water on cisterns under the houses and we use electric water pumps to run the water through the houses. When the level of water in the cisterns is low, the pump takes air and runs water and air through the pipes and this situation makes the water run really slow.
If this would have been brought to our attention at the time it happened we could have taken immediate action and solved it very easy in just 5 minutes. It is actually a very common situation and it happens from time to time to all the villas.
Please, make sure that we take much pride in how we run our houses and care a lot about our guests concerns. We really hope to have you and your party staying at our villa again in the near future.
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