Our experience was, I think, coloured a bit by the weather being cold at night, and sometimes damp. The house isnât well set up for this: the beddingâs not warm enough, thereâs no real way to warm the place up, and the inside is quite shady. Most of the year these would be non problems, of course.
The house has an interesting layout, with an open sleeping platform above the main common area and another bedroom on the ground floor. There are two bathrooms, one containing a non-working washing machine, and a really nice outside area; the hammock here was a high point. Itâs well arranged for a family or two couples. Itâs a 10-minute walk into the centre of Lajares, and you can walk out into the volcanoes, too.
The downsides are that thereâs really nowhere comfortable to sit, though the open-plan area has plenty of room for a couple of sofas; the house feels just a little run-down, very much a second home that gets rented out rather than a properly maintained holiday villa; and the pillows on the beds. Pillows sound a small thing (and these were), but you spend a lot of time with your pillow! Each person is allotted just one cheap one each, a thing so lacking substance that if you rest your head on it, the stuffing runs away and you find yourself effectively lying on the mattress. This isnât a super-cheap property, and I think the guests here deserve a little better.
With a few small improvements - sofas, better/newer kitchen utensils and crockery, an investment in pillows - this would be a 4- or 5-star property. As it is, for us, OK but not great.
