Originally Posted by David and Kathy

Hi Mike & Di,

We went out for eight days, and it was very much a working holiday. We spent the first few days visiting every furniture shop in Ayamonte and then choosing the furniture (and changing my mind on the colour of the sofas en route to Faro airport - turning round and re-ordering!) We also ordered white goods and got two quotes on Air Con - we are waiting for a third.

You may all know that Fadesa now has a furnishing/management company set up in the shed. They are called Conforta. We did not use them but they are on the web if anyone wants to see that they are doing.

We had not been out for a year and the difference in the site was staggering, lots of car parking for the golf club (they must think it will be popular). There was what looked like "substations" in front of some properties (one per pool), they are not very attractive and quite large. We were not allowed inside our house, but did manage to peer through the windows and everything looked good.

David visited a few golf courses in the area to compare fees and it would appear that the quotes we have received are similar to most of them.

We met up with a great couple in the Sugar Reef (Hi Debbie & Brian), who we discovered through the thread would be out at the same time as us. We had a few drinks and swapped furnishing stories!

Ayamonte is growing in size - lots of building everywhere, including a new shopping centre. We also noticed many more English translations on menus (some made interesting reading!).

Altogether we came home really excited and looking forward to returning soon, we have booked our flights, hotel and car hire for early December. Cant wait!

Kathy :)

Originally Posted by PDH

I am also a newer user to this thread, which I thought was for those buying or thinking of buying property on CE. If that is the case then surely any details, tips or information exchanges that people of the CE persuasion choose to discuss must be the purpose of the forum. If this is not the case could Sam Parky, who I believe, from previous posts, started the original thread please set out the parameters for discussion.

Thank you

Paul

Originally Posted by Sue

This particular thread is for any type of discussion related to Ayamonte, Costa Esuri. However, it can and probably will go slightly off topic which is expected, but if you have a completly different topic you want to discuss feel free to start another thread.

ANYONE can start another thread........there is a "Spain" forum outside this thread :D

Originally Posted by David and Kathy

Hi Mike & Di,

We went out for eight days, and it was very much a working holiday. We spent the first few days visiting every furniture shop in Ayamonte and then choosing the furniture (and changing my mind on the colour of the sofas en route to Faro airport - turning round and re-ordering!) We also ordered white goods and got two quotes on Air Con - we are waiting for a third.

You may all know that Fadesa now has a furnishing/management company set up in the shed. They are called Conforta. We did not use them but they are on the web if anyone wants to see that they are doing.

We had not been out for a year and the difference in the site was staggering, lots of car parking for the golf club (they must think it will be popular). There was what looked like "substations" in front of some properties (one per pool), they are not very attractive and quite large. We were not allowed inside our house, but did manage to peer through the windows and everything looked good.

David visited a few golf courses in the area to compare fees and it would appear that the quotes we have received are similar to most of them.

We met up with a great couple in the Sugar Reef (Hi Debbie & Brian), who we discovered through the thread would be out at the same time as us. We had a few drinks and swapped furnishing stories!

Ayamonte is growing in size - lots of building everywhere, including a new shopping centre. We also noticed many more English translations on menus (some made interesting reading!).

Altogether we came home really excited and looking forward to returning soon, we have booked our flights, hotel and car hire for early December. Cant wait!

Kathy :)

Originally Posted by David and Kathy

Hi Mike & Di,

We went out for eight days, and it was very much a working holiday. We spent the first few days visiting every furniture shop in Ayamonte and then choosing the furniture (and changing my mind on the colour of the sofas en route to Faro airport - turning round and re-ordering!) We also ordered white goods and got two quotes on Air Con - we are waiting for a third.

You may all know that Fadesa now has a furnishing/management company set up in the shed. They are called Conforta. We did not use them but they are on the web if anyone wants to see that they are doing.

We had not been out for a year and the difference in the site was staggering, lots of car parking for the golf club (they must think it will be popular). There was what looked like "substations" in front of some properties (one per pool), they are not very attractive and quite large. We were not allowed inside our house, but did manage to peer through the windows and everything looked good.

David visited a few golf courses in the area to compare fees and it would appear that the quotes we have received are similar to most of them.

We met up with a great couple in the Sugar Reef (Hi Debbie & Brian), who we discovered through the thread would be out at the same time as us. We had a few drinks and swapped furnishing stories!

Ayamonte is growing in size - lots of building everywhere, including a new shopping centre. We also noticed many more English translations on menus (some made interesting reading!).

Altogether we came home really excited and looking forward to returning soon, we have booked our flights, hotel and car hire for early December. Cant wait!

Kathy :)

Originally Posted by David and Kathy

Hi JDR

Apologies if my contribution was "off track", I started reading this thread way back in the early days (the original thread) and I understood it was for passing information and helping each other with general news.

You will see that I have only "posted" 9 times, where as you have posted a huge 718 times and therefore must be an expert, perhaps you could enlighten me as to what the thread should be used for. Thank you so much.

Kathy

Originally Posted by sam parky

Hi Kathy,

Thanks for the information, its very much appreciated.
Did you notice while you were on site the townhouse gardens that look into the communal area. I was just wondering if they had started fencing them off yet, and if so what sort of materials they were using.

Sam

Originally Posted by David and Kathy

Hi Sam

The gardens that overlook the pool have not been fenced off yet, they having been laying top soil though, so hopefully will be grassing the areas soon.

The apartments area, which is more advanced and is grassed & landscaped looks really nice - and it looks like they have planted thousands of palm trees!

For those of you that were interested in Air Con Units, we have got prices for Inverter units (hot and cold air). (These quotes are for a 3 bedroomed townhouse)

Muebles Mateos for a Mitsubishi unit = 3909E + 540E (approx) for fitting
for a Daikin unit was about the same price.

Conforta (Fadesa's in-house company) wanted 3800E (inc fitting) for a Fujitsu unit.

We are still waiting for our third quote for another Daikin unit as that is our preferred manufacturer (David has 40 of these units in his business and have been running without any trouble for seven years).

White Goods - we have ordered via Muebles Mateos and approx costs are
Washing Machine 325E
Dishwasher 393E
Fridge Freezer 409E (small freezer area, but large fridge to store the beer and wine ...... in case Sam visits!!!!) :beer:
(the make of these are Lynx, similar to Bosch but less expensive).


We did notice that at the moment only the upper floors in the town houses have security shutters, we have faxed Fadesa for more information about this as we understood the whole house would have the security shutters (we presume and hope they have just not fitted them yet!) All the apartments appeared to have the shutters). Will keep you posted when we hear.

Kathy

Originally Posted by PDH

David and Kathy

Thank you for a an extremely useful post I know nothing about Air con so would be grateful to hear more about the Daikin units and price when you get it.

Regards

Paul & Hayley

Originally Posted by sam parky

Hi Paul and Hayley,

I emailed Muebles Mateos yesterday for a quote on the aircon/heating. I`ve just this minute had a reply, all I need to do is attach a floor plan of our house to them and they can then give me a quote. Which I have done. If you want to email them their email is <<email address removed for privacy reasons contact member via PM for email details of company>> they also have a website www.mueblesmateos.com Thanks Kathy for putting me on to them.

Sam

Originally Posted by Mike and Diane

Where is the new shopping centre they are building? or is it finished?