2 BEDROOM POOLSIDE APARTMENT

We bought this beautiful poolside apartment in 2002 and the lovely terraced house in the summer of 2004. After first falling in love with Aldeas de Taray a rainy day in March, we realised that it would be the perfect holiday spot in the sun.We spent many holidays ourselves in the apartment and then moved permanentely to Aldeas de Taray Club at the end of 2005.

Our oldest boy spent his first year and a half in the terraced house and learnt to walk on the spacious lawns of the communal gardens as well as balancing along the wall of the seaside promenade. The house is great as it has the bedrooms and a large bathroom upstairs and kids can be put to bed while the adults can still enjoy the kitchen, living/diningroom and outside seating area at night. The patio has seating for 8 and a BBQ. The apartment is fantastically set with the a´southfacing terrace overlooking the pool. The closeness to the sea and the lovely, sandy beach is brilliant as you can easily come and go and do not need to pack for the day or take the car anywhere. What we also love (and our guests and locals of La Manga would agree) is that Aldeas de Taray Club is La Manga's best looked after complex. It has the enormous, lawned gardens with the 2 big pools, always clean and always at least one pool open all year round. The free internet (wi-fi) and the tennis court as well as activities put on for children during the fiesta week of August are all big draws. We love this house and the only reason we didn't stay on living there was that we needed to be nearer to the school and nursery, but for a summer holiday or a few months during the mild winter it is a lovely place to be.

The typical Spanish/Moorish look of the complex and the large green areas with loads of beutiful flowers, Bouganvilla, Hibiscus, Palm trees, olives trees, fresh bananas. The lovely seaside promenade, just a few steps from the house, where you can spend hours watching the Mediterranean sea make waves or reading a book on the wall or one of the benches. The long, sandy beach, which is hardly ever too busy, the clean, sparkly blue swimming pools and all the little details in Mosaic, scattered around the complex and inside the house. The feeling of being far away from the world and total relaxation and the closeness to so much beautiful neature and the Mar Menor.Opening the window and hearing the sea, smelling the fresh air. Breakfast in the garden or on the terrace of the apartment, having a BBQ at night, listening to the grasshopopers and being surrounded by friendly neighbours and holiday makers.