Envy Apartment

We travelled 26 July to 9 August. We booked as a package holiday through Virgin. We are a family of 5, with 16, 12 and 4 year olds and we had the 3 bed 2 bathroom option . Rooms were huge, and adequately equipped. There was plenty of hanging and storage space (other than in the kitchen) and we had a safe. Kitchen well equipped with microwave, massive fridge, large oven and hob, enough cutlery and crockery and a dish washer. We found it easy to cook simple meals and had enough kitchen items to do this only thing we had missing was a baking tray but we made do. We didn't add any cleaning or maid services to our package, mainly to save a bit of money. There was a hoover and dustpan and brush for use, so it depends what you want from your holiday, me and my hubby were quite happy to run round with a hoover or surface spray (which we bought) while the other bathed our 4 year old and put him to bed. We also had a washing machine and tumble dryer so washing towels or bedding was easy (y...

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