The villa is beautiful and the beach of Las Terrenas is breathtakingly beautiful. I seriously enjoyed my walks on the beach and the water is clear. The beach made my trip. Tropical vibes for sure. In regards to the villa, I don’t remember reading in the description that you would have a camera outside directly facing the pool and patio sitting area, so girls, if you plan on getting a good topless tan, in this private villa you will not be able too. Also, if you are going with small children be aware that the flooring near pool is highly slippery and my children did fall on several occasions. I tried keeping my kids in sandals to avoid the falls, but kids will be kids and you can’t watch their every move. Also, the mosquitos are horrendous. I bought a mosquito spray from one of the local stores but this did not help. I just know my kids wore bitten up head to toe. Fly’s are everywhere and luckily I found a product in súper mercado Pola called Adiof and this did help reduce the amount around. We did see big cockroaches. The pool what can I say, it is smaller than what it appears in the pictures and needs maintenance because there is a big long crack from the beginning to the end of one of the longer sides. Also, 3 people on our trip: 2 children and 1 adult did get ear infections, and I know it wasn’t from the beach because we did not swim with our heads underwater at the beach, only in the pool. We all (adults and children) received small electric shocks on several occasions by touching the stove and fridge. I did report this and was told someone was going to come and check it out, but no one ever followed up with me. Make sure to ask when you arrive, the day and time when the cleaning people will come to clean the villa. They showed up at 9:00 am in the morning without advising and the cleaning lady was very rude and arguing because she had to wait 40 minutes until we woke up. Also, they left a broken hammock hanging, which is highly dangerous because we did not know and it appeared to be okay, but when my 11 year old son laid on it and felt the hammock going down, he called us and surprisingly, it was broke. I reported it to Manual who received us, one of Helene’s management team members and he confirmed he did know it was broke and that he had forgot to tell us. We were very frugal with electricity only turning A/C and fans on at night to sleep and making sure everything was off during day, and the light bill was very expensive, so budget well.
