Good: Pool and Terrace were truly, absolutely wonderful. The bathrooms and floors were very clean. The small kitchen was beautifully stocked. However, you are in the middle of a neighborhood, surrounded on all sides, and sound travels like crazy. We felt that we had to really keep it down after 10 PM so as not to bother the neighbors.
Bad: The owner has not been there since 2018 and it really shows. The house is quite worn, dirty walls, dirty windows, cracked, chipped, stained linoleum floors in upstairs bedrooms. Additionally, while the downstairs rooms all have windows out onto the pool area, there is no cross breeze because the other side of the lower level has no windows at all. The people in those bedrooms were quite hot (there was a heat wave) even in the rooms with the overhead fans (one room only had a table fan). The mosquitoes were very bad in downstairs rooms--difficult because no screens in the windows, no cross breeze, but very hot. The upstairs rooms were wonderfully breezy and cool at night! No mosquitoes to speak of.
It was nice to be so close to the little Boulouris area with a boulangerie, tabac, and boucherie, but the twice-weekly marche is blah. The house is a kilometer from a not very nice beach, but there are nicer beaches a bit further away.
At the outset, I should have told the owner of my disappointment with the condition of the house, but my disappointments were not just a dirty microwave or stained sheets--my disappointment was the overall grubbiness of the house which could not be remedied with a quick run through by the cleaners. And frankly, I didn't want the negativity of such a conversation to set the tone for the week.
We arrived at this house after two other week-long rentals in southern France, and one in Normandie. Those houses were each over 200 years old, yet were well taken care of, clean, and charming.
This house needs some TLC--washing walls, replacing linoleum, maybe some screens and/or A/C units in downstairs rooms.
Additionally the WiFi was not adequate for a day of video zoom calls, even when only one person was using it.
