We booked a James villas holiday in the Costa Blanca. The 3 bedroom villa was in Denia. We were instructed to collect the keys at a BTB office in Ontara which was on the way from Alicante airport. On arrival, it was immediately obvious that the villa smelled strongly of damp. Even airing it out with all the windows and doors open was not enough to shift the smell. The furniture in the lounge smelled so bad it was best avoided. The villa was advertised as having at least one English language station - it didn't, however it did have a DVD. We have used James villas before and we went armed with DVDs are they frequently advertise English language TV that isn't actually available. What we didn't know was that for the DVD player to work, you had to hold the connection in at the back of the TV - not convenient if you actually want to watch it.
The rooms were all air conditioned but these were not controllable at the unit. There was one remote control for the house. Not good news if you... more