Marphe Hotel Suite & Villas

THIS RENTAL WAS KANGOTAN VILLA, WHICH WAS A VILLA APPROX 1K FROM THE MARPHE HOTEL. Beautiful old villa with lovely antique furniture & pieces(although some smaller items unnecessary for a holiday let, ie baby mittens & baby bottle!!!!). Gorgeous Turkish rugs throughout. 10 minute walk into Datça Lovely pool, good sun beds, set in a nice garden, (although needs a tidy) with a lovely dining area. This villa has great potential to be a really nice holiday home, but it seems the owner doesn’t care enough!! (We didn’t see him at all during our stay, although we know he was in the town at his shop)

We paid 2880.00 euros for this villa, VERY VERY expensive especially considering my comments below! The owner definitely saw us coming! Needs total new kitchen & bathrooms, very old, tired & worn, old shower fittings/taps very stiff, mouldy shower curtains (yuck!!) Disgusting ancient chopping board & tray in kitchen. Old table & chairs in kitchen (not antique old!!) Old & broken fridge/freezer. The kitchen was swarming with ants when we 1st arrived & had to ask for some ant killer to be delivered. An old dirty washing machine in a filthy room in the basement, with old empty detergent containers lying around. Old dirty ripped cover on ironing board down there, had to ask for replacement ironing board & ask for iron as there wasn’t one in the house. When we asked about cleaning we were told we would have clean sheets & towels every 4th day, the first week that was correct, then it went to 5 days, then the last week not at all, when questioned the owner, he had no real explanation why, we guess it was because he’d had our money so wasn’t going to bother the last week!! Because we questioned it, they came again the day before we left. A small welcome starter pack would have been nice with kitchen essentials, including when the cleaner would be in etc etc, that’s what you usually get when you rent a holiday home, (especially when you pay so much) but absolutely nothing. Had to buy pegs to hang out clothes on the the rusty old clothes dryer. Several of the cupboards & drawers in the bedrooms had other people’s personal effects in them, not something you would expect. Very old pillows on beds with no pillow protectors. Ceiling fan in kitchen was broken, so was on constantly the whole 16 days we were there, the guy who let us in did tell us it was broken, but obviously had no plans to fix it.