We, Alex and Fran, have run Hestía Your Home since 2016, in Vera Playa (Almería). We are not an agency or a management company: they are our three apartments and we look after them ourselves.
Alex takes care of the booking and everything before you arrive: availability, price, contract and your questions before the trip. Fran takes care of the stay and everything that happens once you are here.
That is the difference from booking through a portal: there is a person behind it who knows the apartment, the complex and the area, and who replies within minutes.
In Greek mythology, Hestia was the goddess of the hearth and the sacred fire, the one who kept the flame at the centre of the house while the rest of Olympus divided up war, love and power. That fire turned a house into a home, and it was honoured before leaving on a journey and on returning.
Fran is a classical philologist and Alex a computer engineer. When it was time to name the project, the name already existed: Hestía, the one who turns a place into a home.
The monogram is an H worked in glazed teal. The two columns are the house, the double curve is at once an olive leaf (the Almería olive grove) and a wave crest (the Mediterranean 300 metres away), and in the stroke remains the silhouette of the roof of the previous logo, the one that accompanied us for almost a decade.
Each letter of Hestía names a value: Hospitality, Listening, Simplicity, Transparency, Integrity and Roots. Six ideas that add up to one: trust.
We do not live in Vera Playa, but we have been tied to Almería all our lives. It is the sunniest province in Europe, with more than 320 days of sun a year, and it is still not the best known: that is precisely what protects it. Every Hestía looks out on the same Mediterranean.
We prepare every arrival the same way: ironed 200-thread-count sheets, 600 g/m² towels, feather duvets, a welcome kit, air conditioning set to the season, and a cot and high chair set up if you asked for them.
All three apartments are registered with the Andalusian tourism register under licences VFT/AL/01580, VFT/AL/05535 and VFT/AL/07056.