Casalina Garden Apartments Aruba

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• Élise Gloor

  14 December 2016

  Very enjoyable stay in October. Great hosts. Will be back!

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• R Van Liefland

  16 September 2016

  Apartement Rose is spacious and features a lovely comfortable king-size bed, large closet, full-size TV and a spacious bathroom with a walk-in shower. All very clean and comfortable. Out-door kitchen with all you need and a private table with chairs. Lots of privacy. The complex furthermore features a garden with more apartments around it.
  The complex is within walking distance from the beach, shops and restaurants. For further exploring the island a rental car is mandatory; the owners may be able to provide with an affordable option. Price / quality ratio is very good and the hosts are welcoming and very helpful.

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• Costa Michailidis

  28 May 2016

  Great AirBnB spot in Aruba. It's a ten minute walk from the beach.

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• Dave Laurie

  19 March 2016

  We stayed there in March 2016. Tu accommodated us wonderfully in Aruba. The room is very nice and the beds are comfy. Our kids loved playing in the garden, pool and on the trampoline. The location is great as it is within walking distance to the beach. The property was better than expected. We would gladly stay again on our next trip to Aruba, without hesitation.

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• Abram Schwarz

  14 January 2016

  I only gave this rental one star because of the location And zero stars wasn't an option. This facility was abominable. My husband and I have rented houses twice before in Aruba and many times in other countries. That being said, this is the first time we've been sold a bill of goods. We were told this would be a two bedroom, one bath apartment five minutes from the beach. This is completely deceptive, it was not the correct facility based on the website/description. The owner has taken pictures of the same room but the furniture is changed to make two rooms look like three. This was a one bedroom apartment with a living room which had a bed, there was no sofa or indoor living space. We were told the apartment would have two queen beds and a roll away. The roll away would be an extra $20/night, upon arrival there were two twin beds and one queen (the queen was in the living room/kitchen combo). The beds had duvet covers, with no duvet or blanket inside, thank goodness we brought a blanket for our daughter. The "kitchen" had a table with three chairs, clearly indicating that this is not an apartment for four people. The website said there was a washer and dryer, neither of which was available for use. You could give the owner's maid your clothes and she would wash them, but you couldn't do them yourself as they were located in her home. As such you had to request fresh beach towels. The owner wouldn't give us towels without giving us attitude, saying they only change linens every three days in the high season, and weekly in the off season Most likely because that is when the maid is there. After a beach day, towels should really been changed. And if we had our own washer/dryer we would have done them ourselves. When the maid was there, they didn't inform us of when they'd be entering the apartment. When cleaning, they left doors and windows open, therefore letting flies into the apartment. One morning we woke up to no fewer than 50 flies in the rooms. So disgusting. We found that they'd been coming though gaps in the trim. Their solution was an electric bug zapper racket. When my husband went to tell the owner, Alexander handed him a bottle of bug spray, clearly not concerned with being any assistance. Tu said it had never happened before, but then asked a litany of questions, which clearly indicated that this was not the first time they'd had this problem. She did caulk the one spot, but that only put a bandaid on the problem. The refrigerator was an under counter model, not a full sized which we were lead to believe from the pictures, it barely kept food cold, but the instructions said not to change the settings- although it was on the coldest setting. The freezer didn't freeze. The kitchen sink had no hot water, which is comical if you're going to try to eat there and wash dishes, which is the whole point of having a kitchen. The Wifi would only work when sitting outside - the comment in the booklet was "Internet can be slow or sometimes not working this is due to the network, and unfortunately there is nothing we can do about it." That seems like a complete cop out, when a simple router would fix that issue. They are an inconsiderate family who has no concern with guests, and we would never rent from them again. Their response and general attitude was "it's Christmas week" and somehow that was supposed to make it acceptable to screw over vacationers.

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