Penthouses Available For Rent Now ?

Hi all,
I'm confused as there is a penthouse apartment for rent through this site (see add at top of screen). I thought only the jardin apartments had been completed to date - the penthouses at Los Naranjos aren't due for completion until the end of the year. The pictures associated with the ad show jardin apartments so perhaps that's what they mean. Anyway it's misleading... Can anyone clarify ?

 

Hi Kevin & Elaine

Yes reading the description of the apartment it is a 2 bed with solarium and not a penthouse? it is available from September onwards From £150.to over £300 PPW dependant on dates. Someone is getting in early with what looks like Show apartment photos and slightly misleading description?

Regards

Phil

It is MY apartment which is a 2 bed Jardin penthouse apartment with private roof terrace.  I had to use the show apartment pics initially but will update it as soon as my own stuff goes in.  PS - My taste is better than PW's bright orange numbers!!  The original 'penthouse' apartments are in Jardines 1-13 with the Naranjos marketed later - hope this clarifies things a bit.

OK Thanks - clear now. So it's a garden apartment rather than a penthouse ? I thought the first penthouses being released were on Los Naranjos and this is still the case. I thought I'd really missed something - goodness knows how many times I've read the PW glossy brochures !

Not a garden apartment but the top floor above the garden apartments with a 50m private roof terrace and balcony.  Can't wait to get the keys!!!

 

Hi all

Oxford English Dictionary says:

Penthouse

  • noun 1 a flat on the top floor of a tall building. 2 archaic an outhouse built on the side of a building.

 

Most people would probabley understand a penthouse to be a special apartment on the top floor of a building.

Now this is were it gets confusing as Polaris World like most thing have ther one interpritation of things, as for them a Penthouse is any apartment (Ground 1^st 2^nd Floors) in the apartment block they have named Penthouses’ the first of which are in Los Naranjos area, all the rest are garden apartments (ground & 1^st floor).

I must learn to speak Spanish or is it Polarish?????

Now were did I put that medication

Regards

Phil

This message was last edited by PGM on 6/10/2008.

On the basis of this article, none of the properties at Condado are "penthouses" as they certainly don't have "luxury" features.  Is there an issue about which are penthouses and which are not?  There could be an argument that the top floor Jardin apartments are penthouses by virtue of their position and large roof terrace and that the ground/first floor Naranjos apartments (referred to by Polaris as 'penthouse apartments') are not penthouses because they are not on the top floor - but does it really matter?  We are all buying lovely properties on a fabulous resort and I don't really mind whether my apartments are referred to as "apartments",  "penthouse apartments" or "garden apartments" - there is an argument for each!

A penthouse apartment or penthouse is an apartment or condominium that is on one of the highest floors of an apartment building or condominium. Penthouses are typically differentiated from other apartments by luxury features.

In architecture, the term penthouse is used to refer to a structure on the roof of a building that is set back from the outer walls. These structures do not occupy the entire roof deck. High-rise buildings will often have penthouse structures enclosing mechanics such as those in an elevator machine room.

While European designers and architects long recognized the potential in creating living spaces that make use of rooftops and such setbacks, in US cities, exploitation of these spaces began in earnest in the 1920s. It was a matter of news when the development of a rooftop apartment at the Plaza Hotel overlooking Central Park was announced in 1923, but this was followed by rapid development of luxury penthouse apartments in the following years. ^[1]

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Penthouse apartments/condominiums are generally expensive, and are often associated with a luxury lifestyle. Thus, those wishing to market or otherwise inflate the prestige of a particular apartment/condominium may use the term. The term penthouse is sometimes applied to apartments/condominiums that are no different than others in a building, other than being on one of the uppermost floors. The term sub-penthouse is sometimes used to describe apartments/condominiums near the top of a building, when the term penthouse is reserved for the uppermost floor.