Just to be clear, I booked this villa for me and my friends but we ended up not going to this villa due to the below reasons.
NOTE: This review is not useful to you if you're looking to know how well the villa and its facilities are.
I spent a couple of weeks looking for a nice villa for our stay and then finally picked this villa and booked it via "booking.com". The thing you need to know is that the payment is NOT handled by booking.com. The payment is done by us directly to the person who is in charge of this villa, so booking.com has nothing to do with the payment aspect of booking this villa (I'm not sure if this is applicable for all villas or not, but this is how it is for this villa). Then on booking.com's chat section, I finally received a message from the person (let's call him "person ABC") who is in charge of this villa asking me to pay the full price in order to block the date. So far so good, I just wanted to do a quick check if I'm making the payment to the "official" person from Ignite Villa (which is managed by "Tropicana Stays"). So I google "Tropicana Stays" to find their official site or any other page from where I can get their customer service number, which I did. I messaged that number and long story short, I was informed that I cannot book this villa because they do NOT allow "all boys" groups.
So I texted "person ABC", who was earlier asking me to straight-away do full payment without asking any questions about the gender of my friends, and asked him if it would be okay that all of my friends are male, and he said (in his own words):
"All gents not allowed
Ups sorry"
And there goes the time I spent organizing the plan, scheduling the final dates, and picking the right villa, down the drain.
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