Residence Le Bouganville

Great location. Amazing beach and short walk into town.

We had a lovely stay at Residence Le Bouganville. The setting is beautiful and the whole place is very relaxing. The kids loved the pool, which was never too crowded. The beach is a 5 minute walk away and Villasimius town is about 15 minutes. We didn't have a car, but definitely needed if you want to explore the local area.

The local area is great - clear blue beaches in every direction served by really good beach clubs! However, for what we paid for our apartment, the best thing going for it was the pool and bar/cafe area! The apartment itself was clean and had air conditioning in each room (a god send!) but no kettle, microwave, a sponge/brush to wash the dishes (but did provide a small pot of dishwashing liquid) nor even matches to light the gas stove and barely enough cups/glasses for the family! Very bare internally and could do with some updating and providing some bare basics to make the stay a little more comfortable especially for what we were paying! At least the pool and other facilities were clean and comfortable! Note: the reception does not speak English at all so hard to ask for anything more than checking in/out.

I'm writing this review with lots of sorrow, as this place is one of the most beautiful places I have been to. So, despite the fact that the rooms are great, the pool is awesome and the location is beautiful, I still gave it one star. After the first day, we asked why our room is not being cleaned, and we were told that they don't clean the rooms and don't change towels (only after one week). We said OK. When we checked out, they told us that we need to wash the dishes and take out the garbage. This was never been told to us, at any point (not in their web site, not in their reception and not when they took us to the room). We said ok, washed the dishes and took out the trash. By the way, they told us that the penalty will be 50EUR if we don't want to. Only after two hours we left the place, on our way to Cagliari. Few hours later, we got a shocking email, that "due to the fact that the cleaner had to clean the room, they will charge us for additional 100EUR(!!). One might think, and I guess that this will be their response, that we left a ruined room. Well, we haven't. We left the fridge with some unopened grocery, like we are doing in every place that we are staying, three empty bottles in the room, and a toy truck, that didn't fit in our luggage. I have been traveling a lot. Been to more than 50 countries, while I'm not 35 yet. Never ever in my life I got such a rude, unprofessional email. I already contacted my credit card company