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Apartments for rent on the Costa Brava - Near Coast

For couples or small families renting an apartment might be more interesting than renting a large villa. However, most apartments on the Costa Brava are in horrendous resort towns. Here are a handful of nice places that well situated:

  • prices include all utilities, taxes, sheets and towels, cleaning charges, etc.
  • there are no extra or hidden costs of any kind
  • a loan-copy of our 90-page Insider�s Guide to the Costa Brava is provided for each rental
  • owners require a deposit of 25% of total rental fee to secure the booking
  • be sure to read the Comments from Past Visitors - a link in each house listing
  • in high-season, rentals minimum one week, usually from Saturday to Saturday

 

Mas d'en Bou

Three two-bedroom apartments 60m2 situated on an attractive farm setting just 800 meters from the wide sandy beach, 2.5 kms south of l'Estartit and the Isles Medes, the coast's best area for SCUBA diving. The apartments are a bit Spartan but very nicely done, with a separate garden and outdoor seating area, and barbecue for each apartment. I normally don't like apartments near the beaches - too noisy and commercial. I've stayed here and I liked it and come back often, and now with the large new swimming pool (15x6m) along with a small kiddy pool and new landscaping around the garden, this place just gets better and better.

95 to 135 Euros per day, depending on season

Availability 2008

booked 12/7 to 30/8

24.5 - 31.5 31.5 - 7.6 7.6 - 14.6 14.6 - 21.6 21.6 - 28.6 28.6 - 5.7 5.7 - 12.7 12.7 - 19.7 19.7 - 26.7 26.7 - 2.8
2.8 - 9.8 9.8 - 16.8 16.8 - 23.8 23.8 - 30.8 30.8 - 6.9 6.9 - 13.9 13.9 - 20.9 20.9 - 27.9 27.9 - 4.10 4.10 - 11.10

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Can Massanes

Can Massanes: two 2-bedroom apartments built into an ancient hay-loft in an old masia which has a four-bedroom B&B in the main house. Excellent location - close to Pals and beaches. Breakfast and dinner available. Not fancy but undoubtedly one of those best-kept-secret sort-of places... Garden and new swimming pool. However, if you are looking for a lot of privacy in high-season, look elsewhere as the is shared and the place is usually quite full. Usually minimum 1 week in high-season.

Book early. Normally Saturday to Saturday changeovers. 140 Euros per day

Availability 2008

check with me for availability for your dates

San Antoni de Calonge

San Antoni de Calonge: Sleeps up to 7. This popular resort town lies between Platja d'Aro and Palamós. I usually shy away from beachfront rentals. Beachfront-rentals is usually a cut-throat market where you get chinzy apartment that have been abandoned for 10 months of the year that are suddenly brought back to life to make big bucks from beach-crazed tourists.... But this 100m2 sea-side apartment is owned by some farmers who have one of the farmhouses I rent inland, and the place is basic but genuinely nice, and they actually live there part of the year. The flat is on a very nice beachfront promenade full of cafes and restaurants, on the fourth floor with elevator, with three rooms, one full bath, one WC, a dining/living room with fireplace, a full walk in kitchen, and two terraces affording views: one overlooking the beach just below, the other facing the distant mountains. The owners also rent out a berth (7x14 mtrs) in the local marina, less than a kilometer away. Not fancy, but excellent value, and the beach here is top-notch.

925 to 1050 Euros/week.

Availability 2008

2008: booked mid-July to end August

23.5 - 30.5 30.5 - 6.6 6.6 - 13.6 13.6 - 20.6 20.6 - 27.6 27.6 - 4.7 4.7 - 11.7 11.7 - 18.7 18.7 - 25.7 25.7 - 1.8
1.8 - 8.8 8.8 - 15.8 15.8 - 22.8 22.8 - 29.8 29.8 - 5.9 5.9 - 12.9 12.9 - 19.9 19.9 - 26.9 26.9 - 3.10 3.10 - 10.10

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Mas Dalt apartments

Mas Dalt - apartments rented separately only in the off-season - sleeps up to 35 or so guests in 17 rooms, with 14 bathrooms, this enormous masia (nearly 1000m2) is on a 15 hectaire private property of fields and forest above the historic lakeside town of Banyoles. There are three distinct living quarters in two separate houses: the huge main house is divided into two parts, the main part upstairs has 10 rooms, (3 rooms en suite and 7 rooms sharing 4 baths) as well as the huge kitchen/living/dining rooms. Around to the side of the house there is another independent apartment under vaulted ceilings with 3 en suite bedrooms, as well as kitchen/living/dining room. Across the new 12x5m kidney-shaped swimming pool and lawn area from the main house is another fully equipped 4 bedroom (all en suite) stone house. Situated 1 km from Can Tapies - see below.

flexible changeover day, and weekdays are cheaper than weekends comes to about 25 euros per person per night

Availability 2008

check with me for price and availability

Can Tapies apartments

Can Tapies - apartments rented separately only in the off-season -  is a huge baronial stone mansion (sleeps up to 31 guests) consisting of three indepedent fully equipped apartments, one with 5 bedrooms with private bathrooms, another apartment with 3 bedrooms with private bathrooms, and one apartment with 4 rooms sharing just one bathroom. (Total is 12 rooms + 9 bathrooms for a total of 25 or so guests!) The villa is rented as a whole in high-season. It is very important to stress here that these are not 3 apartments crammed into a normal farmhouse. Each apartment is very generously proportioned, with large living/dining room, private terrace, set well apart from each other. There is a new 12x5m swimming pool set on a terrace just below the house, as well as a BBQ area with great views. For larger groups, this one gets a big thumbs up from me! Excellent location too, 5 kms from historic lakeside town of Banyoles, 20 kms to Girona, 35 kms to the beaches.

Flexible changeover days, weekdays less expensive than weekend.

Availability 2008

2008: check with me for availability and prices. Comes to about 25 Euros per person per night.

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