Hi All
We have just returned from spending our first 2wks in our apartment on H/R
we have waited 2yrs since we singed up for this with lots of set backs along the way.
It was an adventure from landing at the airport. right until we arrived back home.
it was the first time i have driven a car abroad before
It took us 4 & 1/2 hrs to find the site, got lost, went up hill, down dale & round hundreds of roundabouts.
don't think the Spanish like road signs, it was day light when we started out but went dark the more we got lost, after several hrs we stopped at what we thought was a night club to ask for directions?
(it turned out to be a brothel)
eventually we arrived at H/R at 11pm the guard at the gate did not speak english. its no use having your plot number they have now numbered the blocks and if you do not know your block number you have no chance of finding it.
We asked a couple walking back to their apt did they know were (block 80) was ? they said they did not have a clue, they said that when they had first arrived they slept rough on the grass as they could not find their apt They also said that they had met someone who had spent the night in his car because he could not find his apt. Just then a security man came by in a car we stopped him, he could not speak english either, we showed him the map were our apt was, he gestured to follow him, it was a good job we did as we would never have found it without him.
We were shattered and went to bed as soon as we got in and left everything until the morning
Next morning we found that the wrong furniture had been delivered, >:
This had only taken them 9 months to get right and they had still not done it.
we left yesterday and after 2wks of phone calls we have still not got the furniture that we ordered.
The site was a disappointment, there are no facilities available as promised,they have only just started to put water in a few of the pools as there is a dispute about water in the region.
The bar is a little wooden hut, as is the shop, you defo need a car as there is nothing to do on site unless you like golf. the weather was very hot, i have been burnt and bitten with mozzies whilst there.
There was a meeting about community charges whilst we were there and an election of presidents one for each block
P/W have handed over the maintenance of the site to a management company, it was asked at the meeting why P/W had not had quotes from different companies to do they work but there was no ans to that, thus the high cost of community charges.
I am not so sure about this arrangement but we will have to wait and see
we have a 2 bed apt and have been informed that our community charge would be approx 1,600 euro per yr, they will all be back dated from January 08
I do feel very sorry for owners depending on rental to cover mortgages as it will be hard to rent at the moment.
freda & Peter
