Casa Las Plumerias: Heated Pool - Spa - BBQ - 1/3 acre yard

Our resort-style home provides a peaceful escape in South Florida. Walk to shops & restaurants or bike to the beach about 2 miles away! The 1/3 acre lot includes a lush garden with palms, mangos, and rare tropical fruits. Glass doors invite the outside in: step onto the patio to dine alfresco or lounge by the heated pool. Socialize indoors in the open-layout living area, or retire to the bedrooms, each with direct access to the yard. Take a mid-day siesta in the hammock or swing in the evening breeze.

Casa Las Plumerias welcomes you from the moment you step in the door. You and your guests will enjoy four sizable bedrooms, a large common space with perfect flow from the huge kitchen to the living area to the glassed-in dining area with seating for 8 people.

Our home is perfect for anywhere from two to eight people. Each bedroom has access to the outdoors, and two bedrooms have ensuite bathrooms. Each room is outfitted with high end linens and room darkening curtains:

Primary Bedroom: King bed, 55” smart TV, ensuite bath
Bedroom 2: Queen bed, workstation with ethernet
Bedroom 3: Queen bed, reading nook
Bedroom 4: Queen bed, workstation, 45" smart TV, ensuite bath

In the living area, enjoy vibrant home cinema on a 77" Samsung S90C Smart TV with HW-Q800C soundbar. From the dining area, watch wildlife in the yard, including songbirds at the bird feeder.

Our gourmet kitchen is a chef’s dream with high-end Samsung Bespoke appliances (induction cooktop + convection oven, french door refrigerator + freezer with ice maker, microwave, and dishwasher). We include a wide range of cooking tools including silverware, plates, glassware, wine glasses, measuring cups and spoons, pots and pans, cooking utensils, potato peeler, rolling pin, cheese grater, knife set, cutting boards, colander, mixing bowls, wine key with bottle opener, many baking pans, pots and pans, can opener, meat thermometer, BBQ tools, cleaning supplies, salt + pepper grinders, olive oil, and herbs & spices.

The yard includes a screened porch, a built-in gas grill, an outdoor shower, a heated pool, six loungers, canopy umbrellas, and a dining table. A soothing fountain adds to the ambiance, and a wide range of tropical fruit trees offer fruit in season: mango, jaboticaba, starfruit, two different avocados, cacao, guanabana, coconut, guava, jackfruit, Surinam cherry, key lime, rangpur lime, Meyer lemon, and calamondin.


It's Really Our Home

Casa Las Plumerias is our primary home and we take loving care of it. We rent it out just a few months a year to people we can trust. Before you arrive, we pack our things into a couple of closets so that we can share our sanctuary with you. This means that the huge kitchen has two drawers of herbs and spices and plenty of staples. There's birdseed for the feeder that will attract all kinds of birds -- sometimes even a pair of colorful parrots -- to the yard. And if you have questions about how things work, we really do know the answers.


About Us

We started our business, Alejo's Hideaways, in 2014 with a converted garage in Oakland, California. In addition to Casa Las Plumerias, we now have a sweet house in Palm Springs called Casa Azahara, a penthouse apartment in Pereira, Colombia called Casa In The Air, and -- in partnership with Alejandro's big brother -- a boutique hotel in Bogotá, Colombia called Hotel Zen-sual. All are listed here on Airbnb.

If you're curious about us, Alejandro has worked as a lawyer, nonprofit administrator, and bodyworker. Mark has worked as a custom application developer, singer, actor, and writer (see "Mark Baum Music" ).


Our neighborhood

We live in a quiet residential neighborhood just a few blocks from Oakland Park City Hall.

Walk only two or three blocks to some of our favorite restaurants: Nour Thai, Red Sea, The Butcher's Barrel, Funky Buddha, and Tatts & Tacos.

Walk seven blocks to Oakland Park Boulevard where you can catch a bus. Heading west you can walk to Aldi, and heading east you'll reach a shopping center (Publix, Target, AMC theater, etc).

It takes about 15 minutes to bike to the beach.

In good traffic, the Fort Lauderdale airport is only 15 minutes away by car, and popular Wilton Drive less than 5 minutes away.


Guest Access

Guests have access to the entire house with the exception of two locked owner's closets.

The driveway can accommodate a maximum of three vehicles. No street parking permitted.

You'll have a personal code to open the smart lock on the front door.

Each of the four bedrooms has independent access to the back yard.

One corner of the property is reserved as a fenced-in private patio for our in-law apartment. This apartment shares a wall with the living room, but the wall is 12" thick concrete block and provides excellent acoustic privacy.


Important House Rules

Quiet hours are from 10:00 pm - 8:00 am. The City of Oakland Park has a strict noise ordinance in place and may fine or terminate the rental if a violation occurs. Please be advised the neighbors pay close attention to the rules and they will report any issues. Guests will not be refunded if they violate the noise ordinance and are asked to leave. Guests may be responsible for any fines imposed on the host from code enforcement as a result of the violation.

*** We are not a party house
*** No pets
*** No smoking indoors - $500 fine strictly enforced
*** No unregistered guests permitted overnight
*** No street parking - please park only in the driveway

This is a recently remodeled home and the hosts wish to maintain the quality and integrity of the property by offering a pet-free and smoke-free environment. Minimum age to rent this home is 25.

We welcome families with children of all ages; however, our home is not childproof. This is a split-level home with a large terraced yard that includes a pool and built-in grill. Children should have adult supervision at all times while on the property, especially while outdoors.

This home is equipped with multiple Alexa-Enabled EchoDot smart speakers that are used to run our home automation system and control various features of the home. Please do not unplug any automation devices, the WiFi router, or the modem. Doing so may result in advertised features or amenities not working properly.

You may see or encounter wildlife while in our home or neighborhood. This could include (but may not be limited to) iguanas, birds, mosquitos, ants, and palmetto bugs. Though we do our best to manage the controllable aspects of our property, there are certain elements that are common in our environment that are out of our control. We ask that you embrace the occasional surprises of South Florida living while staying with us.