Over the five or so years we've been welcoming guests to La Golondrina - a.k.a. Calle Altillo 26 - we've had parties consisting of one couple, couple plus kids, two couples, one couple and one single, two singles, three singles, a ménage-a-trois plus a couple (I like to imagine), one individual in magnificent isolation, and five ladies from Norway.
A typical set-up is three generations - this weekend we welcome a mum, grandmother and daughter - and another is the young adult couple with either his or her parents (although it's always her parents, I notice). Interestingly, different nationalities have wildly contrasting attitudes to privacy, but that's another story.
Anyway, we've been saying we welcome up to five guests, as we have two double beds and a single. Now we've added a
very comfortable bed-chair (or single sofa-bed) from Ikea to make it six. The bed-chair is in the small bedroom alongside a standard single bed, so that room could now sleep two, but it could equally be used on the first-floor landing or the trastero to make a fourth sleeping area, or moved into the biggest bedroom for a toddler who likes to sleep in the parents' room. NB: there's also a cot thing available for babies - it's folded up in the trastero and goes up in seconds - but you have to bring your own baby.
So now our place sleeps six adults, or more if you're
particularly inventive/intimate, and all at no extra cost - bringing the price per person in mid-season down to a frankly mystifying £58/€70 per week.
