Having been to Frigiliana many times before and stayed in some wonderful properties, we found it hard to believe that we have never seen this villa before. It is absolutely fabulous! The views are out of this world with commanding views to the olive grove ridges, the mountains, whilst overlooking the whole of Frigiliana, and finally Nerja and the sea in the far distance. But, 'to get the best views you have to climb the highest mountain', as they say, and this entails driving straight through and past the village, up a mountain road and then down to the car space which sits almost on top of the villa roof! As I, personally, am not good with heights, we chose to empty the car of its luggage and took the car back down to the main road, where it remained parked (for free) for the next ten days. It is only a 15 minute meander back up to the villa, and we chose to buy daily shopping at the local tiny shops on the way up. It does take a day or two to stop your heart beating through ones chest but at the end of the holiday we were climbing through the village like a couple of seasoned Sherpas!!
The villa itself really is beautiful, very clean, and has lots of terrace space to soak up the sun. Some days we chose not to leave the terrace but just chilled out and soaked up the sun and atmosphere.... It seemed a no-brainier not to use all the facilities the villa offered!!
It was unfortunate that the Internet wasn't working, and Ana, the owner, did everything she could to make it work but it really was a technical issue. We just read more books instead, and took advantage of the wifi restaurants in the evening.
Only a couple of niggles really.... There was no kettle, which seemed strange. Also, as there is no air-conditioning, it would have been nice to have had a fan just to cool things down a bit, especially in the bedroom at night..... the weather, thankfully, was very, very warm during our stay!
Oh, and a little microwave oven would have been handy too.
Would we use the villa again? We would be back next week if we could!!!!
Paul and Jo