Please warned about Ballito Luxury Apartment with Sea View located in the secure La Pirogue complex in Ballito

Its not so much about Lekkeslaap although they could select there rental stock a bit better. Let me explain we booked Ballito Luxury Apartment with Sea View located in the secure La Pirogue complex in Ballito. The president announce restriction including the closure of beaches from 1st to the 3rd of January and then extended it further. The owner of the apartment Sheila on the day of the first announcement contacted me directly on WhatsApp to remind me to pay for the holiday in full. I then started liaising directly with the owner and I tried to negotiating if we can meet half way if further restrictions were imposed. Basically I told her that we will still take the apartment and pay in full if no further restrictions were imposed which she was not willing to accept. We subsequently then tried to see if we could use our deposit which is a substantial amount of money to either book the same unit for next Dec / Jan holidays or to at least extend it to April which would then coincide with our kids school holidays. Again this was not accepted and we had to take an R10000 knock. Sheila the owner was not interested and basically told us it not her problem. This is to warn anyone to think twice before renting Sheila's La Pirogue Ballito apartment especially if something happens and for some reason you need to cancel because Sheila will have no problem taking your deposit or money. No compassion or consideration at all.