2/10 Terrible
Angie B.
30 Dec 2019
Disliked: Check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Booked for 2 months, stayed 3 days
Positives - Oropesa is very wheelchair accessible with wide pavements and plentiful dropped kerbs.
Negatives - Property was wholly misrepresented as being wheelchair accessible - it isn't. Apart from steps at the front door and on to the terrace, the rooms are far too small to get a wheelchair around. As an example, the only clear floor space in the bathroom was directly in front of the handbasin, less than a square metre, and my smaller than average chair wouldn't go through the narrow door anyway. Even for someone who can mobilise a short distance, the lack of handrails would make the bathroom a challenge.
Also the wifi didn't work, basic items such as a bread knife were absent, the toilet was leaking, using the shower flooded the bathroom and hallway, most of the light bulbs didn't work and the towels and linen provided were so old they were almost transparent. Many of these issues could and should have been dealt with fairly promptly by the local management company, however nothing had been done in the 3 days we actually stayed, not even the offer of a lightbulb or replacement towels.
The apartment was supposed to be air conditioned - and it was, but by only one unit located in the lounge. We know from experience that this isn't adequte in hot weather - most often it's getting a decent night's sleep that's priority - and given the expected temperature by December, it was never going to be adequate for heating either.
Even withouth all of those issues, the apartment is tiny - the kitchen is so small that saucepans and crockery have to be stored in the lounge and you have to close the door in order to open the fridge door, the lounge only has seating for 2 people and there was no dresser or similar in either of the bedrooms so nowhere to put clothing that doesn't hang or even to put a hairbrush down.
Oropesa is probably OK in the summer if you don't mind a beach backed by rows of highrise apartment blocks, but by mid October it was dead. We couldn't find a single bar or restaurant open for lunch (or dinner for that matter) and half the business appear to have been closed for years.
