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I stayed in both a hotel rooms & a self-catering apartment. The outdoor areas are great, & the breakfast is good (if your room includes it). But they provide the absolute minimum: sometimes less than that. The apartment did not even have soap!! (I travel a LOT, in many countries, & have NEVER seen anywhere which isn't a crappy budget hostel which doesn't even provide soap!) The rate didn't include sheets or towels - those cost extra - and even then, they don't put them on the bed for you, you have to do that yourself(!) The apartment kitchen had NOTHING - no tea/ coffee, not even herbs or salt. Many self-catering places (incl one I had elsewhere in Sweden): if guests leave herbs, pasta, oil etc., they leave those for the next guests so they have something. Many provide basics like oil. Even the hotel rooms have no tea / coffee / milk, ie, nothing that a guest can use the kettle for. My rooms had no black-out curtains. They don't allow cancelations at all. That is mean, b/c people make mistakes & plans change. The electrical sockets are in silly places. In all rooms, you have to put the kettle on the floor to boil it(!) - which isn't safe if there are children. The cord isn't long enough to reach any other socket. In the apartment, there us nowhere to plug in a phone overnight near the bed (eg, if you are also using it as an alarm). I felt that it's happy to take your money but does as little as possible for it. I wrote to them to tell them all this, and got a silly response.