We had a mixed experience at this residence. We travelled with young children, aged between 12 years and 11 months. Cattolica is a lovely little place with some nice places to eat out, and the apartments are spacious, clean and well equipped. Ours had a huge balcony overlooking the sea and two bathrooms. There were a few problems, however. The owners were not that friendly to us, shooting the breeze with the Italian guests but barely mustering up a Ciao for us. It is very hard to park nearby (there isn't really a space reserved for you as a guest - they say there is, but the owners use it for their car!) as the village is very busy and if you can't find a place in the free carpark (often full) it's seven euros for the day. And if you are after a good night's sleep, don't stay here. The complex is right in the middle of town, and directly opposite a square where cabaret and karaoke singers perform every other night until after midnight - great if you're a party animal, but not if you are travelling with kids or after a bit of r&r . At weekends the place is packed - we're talking the West End on a Saturday night - until the early hours. It was very hot when we were there and we coped without air con for the first four days but on day 5 asked if we could have it on (ten euros a night). That night, a huge amount of water leaked out of one of the units at about midnight so we had to put a saucepan underneath it to collect the water, and turn it off. This was very dangerous - we could have slipped on the stone floor while carrying the baby etc etc. We told the owner next day, and he came up and said he'd try to get it fixed but even after this only one unit out of two actually worked for the next two nights. When we went to settle up, he'd charged us 70 euros (ie for the full seven days). When we said it should only be 30 euros (if that, as it didn't even work properly), he accused us of breaking the air con unit by bending back the front panel (we hadn't touched it!) and of being 'ridiculous' for querying the bill. We felt he was rude and disrespectful to us as guests and ripped us off over the aircon. This left a nasty taste in the mouth and we wouldn't go back.