Villa Celeste - Levanto, Liguria - Casa vacanza

"1. The accommodation: The Villa looks stunning – it has the most amazing position right next to the beach. There are fabulous views from the terraces. Inside, the villa is spacious - we were a party of 8 and there was plenty of room. The bathrooms, kitchens and showers all need updating and most were not as clean as we would have expected. We all noticed that the villa is very damp – all our clothes, the bed linen and any paperwork we took with us felt either clammy or limp. Cleaners did call in the middle of the week to change the bedding which was much appreciated and unexpected. The wi-fi cannot accommodate 8 users – we struggled to have 2 people checking their emails let alone 8. We had 2 power cuts in the villa – one happened at around midnight and we did not manage to get the agent to call until late afternoon the following day. Because we lost all power on the ground floor we had to move everything from the fridge downstairs to the upstairs kitchen in the dark holding mobile phone torches…The other power cut was dealt with more promptly. We were told that we had overloaded the system but 6 of the party were watching a film and the other 2 were in bed so we suspect that it says more about the state of the electrics that our consumption. The dishwashers didn’t work with the tablets we bought at the supermarket and when we used liquid detergent instead the appliances started to foam… There wasn’t enough of the right sort of crockery for 8 eg there were loads of espresso cups and a selection of giant cups but nothing in between. There was one cafetiere for 8 of us. We were seldom in at the right time to manage the rubbish so in the end we stockpiled a week’s rubbish which was unfortunate to say the least. 2. Accommodation rating (from 0 to 10): 6 out of 10 given the cost was in excess of £3000 for the week. 3. The region: Fabulous – but don’t rely on the trains. We waited ages every time we tried to get any where! The sea was pretty murky when we were there after a storm and there was some rubbish floating around in it. 4. Booking process and local management: Booking couldn’t have been easier"