Name: Apartamentos Rurales El Pilpayo
Address: Calle Cimadevilla, 7, Villaviciosa, Villaviciosa, Villaviciosa, 33314, Spain
Rating: 8

Smoke-free property

Ticket assistance

Garden

Television in lobby

Outdoor furniture

No elevators

Electric car charging

General

Laundry

Services and amenities

Coffee/tea for guests

Snack bar

Meals

Free Wi-Fi

Internet

Tour assistance

Tourist services

Barbecue grill(s)

Hiking

Barbeque

Recreation

Parking

Pets Not Allowed

Pets

Extra decontamination measures

Personal protection equipment for guests

Additional measures against COVID-19

Health and Safety Measures

Location

At the apartment

El Molinon

San Lorenzo Beach

La Escalerona

Teatro Jovellanos

Plaza Mayor

Palacio de Revillagigedo

Parque La Atalaya

Elogio del horizonte

Acuario de Gijon

San Julian de los Prados

Archaeological Museum of Asturias

Oviedo Cathedral

Museum of Fine Arts

University of Oviedo

Carlos Tartiere Stadium

Asturias Airport

Apartamentos Rurales El Pilpayo

Villaviciosa

It's very spacious, bright and complete (it has a washing machine, which is very important in large rooms to lighten the luggage) cleaned every day, although only hotel type (things like cafeteria, dishes, etc., no). Although I would have liked to have the garbage removed as well. It's bad that there are containers right across the street. The checkout you do before you go in, because you have to pick up the keys from the hotel (in 10 minutes) and you're already paying for it.

Centered and complete, with some improvement.

It's an apartment with all the amenities, the only thing to note, would be that in one of the rooms there would be a wedding bed, because in the two there are bedding bedding, and they'll lower the price a little, because if you have to travel to a hotel to check in, at least they'll make some other offer or something out of the hassle; they could put the locks in codes and thus not have to go for the key to the hotel.

Everything is perfect!!

We spent 15 very pleasant days in the apartment, although it is noticeable that decorative accessories have been removed due to COVID. A note: comfortable beds. A little high but comfortable living quarters. A large sofa bed for 2 and 3 three people. Comfortable. Excellent location, 2 minutes from the beach, and right in front of a shopping center. Ample, with two bedrooms and two bathrooms. Kitchen accessories just for 5 people. Daily cleaning service. We know that it does not include cleaning the kitchen but at least the floor could ever clean it. Generally, if you notice that the apartment has furnishings, luggage, TV and low accessories.

Ideal apartment for relaxing very close to the beach.

The apartments are fine, the mattresses are very comfortable and the room is spacious, in the living room is the sofa-bed with TV and microwave, washing machine, very clean, 120 meters from the beach and 5 minutes from the old area, located on a quiet street, where you can pick up the keys at the hotel, which is a 5-minute walk away.

Good choice 

The best part of the place was the location, the bed was comfortable and everything was quite clean.The apartment was spacious and the bathroom was super large.The bed and kitchen were in the same room and the furniture was a little old.

 Perfect location

The two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment, with dryer included, fully equipped kitchen, dining room.... as opposed to that there is no parking except in a paid parking lot that is quite close and the entry time, at 4:30 pm, which post me too late.

Well situated and comfortable.

It's a very large apartment, and clean, complicated in apartments, giving you all the amenities of the world when you enter, it's located in the old area, so you won't need the car at all.

Very top 

The only problem is that the walls are made of paper and you can hear absolutely everything, otherwise very recommended, the nearby parking offers discount to customers and the Wi-Fi is quite good, the apartment is much larger than we expected, the keys must be picked up at the Hotel San Esteban which is a 10-minute walk away, we read this detail in the booking documentation and my husband had to keep the luggage at the door while I went to pick up the key.

Centered and very clean.

These apartments have a good location, very close to San Lorenzo beach and close to shops in main street of Corrida. We had a two bedroom apartment (stayed here also in 2013 in a one bed apartment). There were two bedrooms, one quite large with a window to the street behind, a separate kitchen (combined kitchen/living in one bed apartment), a dining/living area and two bathrooms. One had a shower over a bath, and the other a small  shower, semi-circular on the door side, with plastic doors that were difficult to close. Kitchen chairs were a little tatty, and sofa sloped back so that our backs hurt to sit on it for long. There was a TV and also there were 2 chairs in living area, and another TV in the big bedroom (not sure about 2nd bedroom). The sofa can sleep two more people.
The place was spacious, with a good size entry hallway leading to all rooms.
Beds were OK, not especially plush, and pillow hard, but I didn't ask if they had softer ones.
Noise carried from the flat next door, so we had to wake up with the neighbour's children who fortunately kept Spanish hours for the evening they were next door. The kids made a racket during the day, and their dad helpfully tried to keep them in line by yelling at them regularly.
Main issue was the need to collect keys and communicate problems with the hotel, quite a walk away. You need to get there at the correct checkin time. We arrived an hour early and were unable to go to the apartments as they were being cleaned and the only place to leave the bags was at the hotel.

The staff I spoke to didn't speak English, and my Spanish is only intermediate. I was told to call them on the free phone in the apartments' lobby if I had any problems. I tried, but couldn't get through (didn't realise I needed to wait for a dial tone until told about that a few days later by the friendly room attendant - in Spanish), so always rang from my mobile.

Our hot water hadn't been turned on, and I didn't understand the Spanish instructions over the phone about la caldera, which two neighbours we  dragged in found and turned on for us in the kitchen - gas hot water. Why had it been turned off when people were arriving?

Next issue was trying to work out the Spanish instructions for the wifi. Don't try initially to get on with an Ipad - use your mobile. Wifi had to be reset with three entries every 12 hours or whenever it dropped out, whichever came first.

Safe instructions were in Spanish and English, helpfully, but were incomplete. Add an asterisk to open/close after final step.

My key stopped working, so we had to make our way back to the hotel for a replacement.

Flat comes with iron, ironing board, drying rack and rack from window into courtyard that gets no sun. There is a washing machine and maybe it has a dryer, but the manuals which the notice on the front door talked about were nowhere to be found, so I don't know.

Kitchen has 2 hotplates. It was reasonably equipped for a holiday apartment, but no electric jug.

There is a supermarket in the little centre in the street behind the apartments, which was very handy.

TV channels are Spanish.

On the whole, spacious apartment in need of some upgrading. The room attendant was very friendly and tried to help with minor issues (like the safe not opening because none of us knew about the wretched missing asterisk), but honestly, a bit difficult if you need any support and don't speak any Spanish.
 


Handy to beach and city centre

We spent 4 nights in a 2-bedrooms apartment and we enjoyed everything! The apartment itself was modern, clean and well-equiped. The location was excellent. Value for money was very good, too. Close to the city centre, beaches, Cimavilla, etc.
However, it was difficult to stop the car in the street and hardly impossible to park it. There are two (paying) parkings close by, though, with discounted prices depending on the length of the stay.
Overall, we loved it!! 100% recommendable!!

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