Waterfront family home w/ a large yard, firepit, deck, river views, & boat slip

My family spent 8 nights in early August 2018 at this Laclede, Idaho property. Overall, we would highly recommend staying in the Sandpoint area and taking day trips to see everything there is to see. We enjoyed our day trips. I would not recommend staying at this property (especially since the price was a lot more than it should have been for a property in this condition) until there are a number of major updates made to the property. Also, the 30 minute round trip to Sandpoint for restaurants got old. Laclede is lacking in this area.

The property did have ample supplies (towels, paper products, trash bags, etc. - a little light on soaps and shampoos, however, so bring your own). The appliances all worked. The clothes washer looked relatively new, but was very loud and made unusual sounds during several cycles. The WiFi was out for about a half a day. We called the property manager about it, but were able to fix the problem ourselves before he called back about 2.5 hours after our call.

There were six of us, two grandparents, two parents, and two twin eight-year-olds. They were very excited about the dock and easy access to the river. Their first venture to the river and jumping off the dock was a lot of fun until the neighbor’s dog started to jump on top of them off the dock, scratching my grandson’s back and pushing him under the water. I would recommend watching for the dog and discouraging him from joining you on the dock. He was not aggressive, just a little scary for the kids to swim with in the river.

The carpeting in the house looked new and the linens for the beds were clean. There were only two pillows per bed, and I would have preferred extra pillows for my sleeping comfort. The bathrooms both need to be completely remodeled. We had bees in the house for our entire stay.

There is no air conditioning which means in the summer you need to open the windows at night to try to cool down the house. That would be okay except that most of the windows are a real chore to open and close or have broken parts. The property is located about 200 yards from a huge working lumber mill which runs at all times of the day and night - not so much fun when you have to have the windows open.

I have stayed in a number of VRBO properties and have never been this disappointed before. I originally wrote a much more detailed review, but was not able to include all of it due to the limit placed on the number of characters for each review.