Oria holiday farmhouse rental, Sierra de Estancias with walking, log fire, balcony/terrace, internet access, rural retreat, TV, DVD

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Casa Erizo (farmhouse)

Home description

Casa Erizo is fully furnished holiday accommodation or B&B with a private pool, and is a perfect base for those who just want to "chill", romantics, walkers, birdwatchers or artists, due to its quiet mountainous location.
It is an old lovingly restored cortijo with 360-degree stunning views of the spectacular Sierra de las Estancias mountains. It has the best elevated view of the Rambla de Oria valley, nestled under Piedra de Aguila (Eagle Rock with real eagles!) and is excellent for relaxing away from the crowds in real Spain.
The whitewashed casa is a rural retreat and has a sitting room, dining kitchen and en suite bedroom leading directly on to the sunbathing terrace, pool and pergola, and is set amongst olive and almond groves.
The casa has a log fire for cool evenings in winter. There is even an internet connection for your laptop.
If you don't want to hire a car we also do airport pick ups/drop offs, shopping trips, days out.
If you don't want to cook we do B&B, packed lunches and 'dish of the day' evening meals.

Poolside al fresco dining and sunbathing terrace	En-suite bedroom
Elevated view of the valley from the garden	View from the terrace

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The Costa de Almeria region

Perfect location for: relaxation, cycling, walking, birdwatchers, artists and sightseeing in real Spain, Almeria having 320 days of sunshine a year.
Although there are the following places to go, most people love to just relax, sunbathe and read by the pool, drinking in the peace and quiet, enjoying the tremendous views, cracking open home grown almonds and watching for eagles.

Saliente - Monastery, restaurant with a view, and paragliding (recommended by the hostess!)
Mojacar/Garrucha/Aguilas - Mediterranean beaches
Vera Playa - water slide park
Partaloa - horse riding
Tabernas - Mini Hollywood
Velez Rubio and Velez Blanco - prehistoric caves and castle
Baza Lakes and hot springs - picnics and bathing
Nijar - ceramics
Cala Alto - Europe's largest Observatory
Cabo de Gata - nature park and pink flamingos
Villaricos - scuba diving

Local large outdoor swimming pools only open in summer months in Oria, Cullar, Cela and Albox
Indoor swimming pool at Machael

Oria / Sierra de Estancias area

Casa Erizo is in the hamlet of Barranco de Quiles which is 5 minutes from the nearest village Oria for shops, banks, bars and restaurants, and a Sunday market in front of the church. The village dates from the time of the Moors and has the remains of a castle. It is a farming area famous for hams and cold meats, almonds and olives. Albox is the nearest town, 30 minutes away, which has a thriving market on Tuesday mornings selling foods, clothes and local crafts. Tapas (1E a plate) and Menu del Dia (usually 10E for 4 courses) is available locally.

How to get there

Flights can be arranged through flymonarch, ryanair, easyjet, avro, jet2, bmibaby or thomsonfly.com from most British airports to Almeria, Murcia (San Javier), Granada or Alicante airports which are about 1.5 -2 hours drive away.

If you fly to Granada, you can incorporate a visit to the Alhambra Palace on the way.

Cars can be rented from rentspain, skycars, goldcar, eurocar.com or at the airport.

If you don't want to hire a car we can collect you from the airport. Please ask for details/prices.

Activities near Oria

Facilities

Further details indoors:
Kitchen includes all the equipment needed to prepare meals and cook, even a dishwasher, but with so many good restaurants around why cook?

The sitting room includes freeview English TV, and a small selection of CDs, DVDs, books and games, area guide books and a very useful information pack. There is a fan and an internet connection for a laptop.

Bedroom has new pine furniture for storage and a fan. As this is a traditional Spanish building we do not require air-con.
En-suite shower room includes bidet
The dining kitchen is fully equipped and has a log fire

There are tiled floors throughout and rugs
There are fly sceens on the doors and mosquito nets on the windows
Travel plug adaptors are provided
There is a smoke alarm and fire blanket
There is some background central heating in winter

Further details outdoors:
The sun terrace has sunloungers and a parasol, and under the shady pergola there is a garden table and chairs for alfresco dining.
There is an area next to the pool where you can play boules which are provided!
There are fairy lights hanging from the pergola for romantic evenings stargazing, we don't have street lights and on clear nights you can see the Milky Way.

POOL:
There are 2 ways to get into the pool - there are the usual pool ladder steps, but we also have proper steps like stairs, which people with SLIGHT MOBILITY PROBLEMS find easier to use as they can hold the side whilst stepping down them. The pool is 8m x 3m and its depth is 1m at the shallow end and 2m at the deep end. It is shared with the owners. It is solar heated in summer.

Further details

Due to the nature of the terrain there are steps inside the casa and around the poolside maybe making it unsuitable for TODDLERS or people with SEVERE MOBILITY PROBLEMS, sorry.
Babes in arms are welcome as we have a cot.
It is most suited to ages 5-10

OPTIONAL EXTRAS:
Airport pick up, shopping trips, days out - please ask for prices
Meals - please ask for prices
Full body Reiki treatments by the hostess, taster first half hour free.
A starter welcome pack is provided free of charge but a first day provisions pack for 2 can also be arranged 35E
Small fuel charge in autumn/winter/spring for a bucket of firewood should you want a logfire 7E and 15E for a gas cylinder for the heater
Poolside/beach towels 2.5E a week (to save weight in your case!)
Broadband internet connection 1E a day
The host/hostess are available nextdoor to give guests local information and large scale maps can be borrowed for walkers and cyclists.

Conditions

We request that clients purchase travel insurance to cover the activities they will be doing.

This is no-smoking accommodation, although smokers can smoke outside on the terrace.

YOUNG CHILDREN are welcome, but parents be aware that the accommodation is not child-proofed, there are hard tiled floors and steps. We request that children can swim and are supervised at all times when in the pool, which does not have a fence around it.

Rental rates

Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
Winter 09/10	1 Nov 09	1 Feb 10	150£ 150	2525	2525	2 Nights
Early spring 10	1 Feb 10	28 Mar 10	175£ 175	2727	2727	2 Nights
Easter 10	28 Mar 10	11 Apr 10	235£ 235	3737	4040	2 Nights
Late spring 10	11 Apr 10	30 May 10	220£ 220	3737	3737	2 Nights
Summer 10	30 May 10	5 Sep 10	250£ 250	3838	4040	2 Nights
Autumn 10	5 Sep 10	31 Oct 10	230£ 230	3737	3737	2 Nights

The property's weekend rates apply to: Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights

NB: Prices may be subject to change at the advertiser's discretion.

We assume that 3 persons means 2 adults and 1 child in the same bedroom. If the 3rd or a 4th person prefers the sofabed in the sitting room £50 a week/£8 a night each extra

Cot for a baby - free.

Dogs welcome with prior arrangement

£50 non-returnable deposit per week payable at time of booking to make your reservation.

The balance is payable in full 6 weeks before your holiday starts, plus a refundable £100 bond, which will be returned within 2 weeks of your holiday less any charge for excessive cleaning, loss, breakage or damage.

We accept payment by bank transfer in GBP or Euros.

Further booking details and cancellation charges on enquiry.

Longer lets considered

Guestbook for Casa Erizo

" Just being able to step into the pool for a cool dip any time is awesome, and one day there were 2 golden eagles circling overhead!" Simon of Derbyshire (July 09)

"Outside, the photos don't do the views justice; inside it's like a Tardis, much bigger than you'd think!" Francis & Peter of Manchester (June 08)

"A truly enjoyable holiday from walking, mountain biking, sightseeing or lazing by the pool - it has been great! We will be back!" Jim, Julie and Luke of Burnley (Aug 08)

"Excellent facilitiesand well equipped, relaxing throughout the whole time there,and the couple of evenings we spent with Pete and Heather we really enjoyed their company." Rod and Bridget of Northampton (May 08)

“Perfect for honeymooners! The casa exceeded all expectations and we have truly enjoyed our stay here. Everything about the casa has been first class!” Laura and Michael of Birmingham (Aug 09)

"Lovely time again, we'll be back for a third time next year!" Peter and Pat, and granddaughter Amelia aged 10 of Norfolk (May 08)

"I booked for next year within 5 days of getting back!" Angela and Pete of Chesterfield (Oct 07)

"Absolutely delightful! We have had a really fantastic time with a mixture of going out to amazing places or just relaxing here!" Ernie and Sally of Northumberland (April 09)

"Didn't know what to expect but the casa surpassed our expectations, much larger than we thought and the attention to detail is second to none. The perfect place to chill. Thanks for the Reiki session which was wonderful!" Chrissie and Dave of Notts (Sept 09)

Availability

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