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HH Plantation has a Whooping Crane Conservancy and is worth a visit or two. We saw many different Cranes there and even a Bald Eagle once! We love wildlfe viewing and saw 3 large alligators in the Sea Pines Forest on the south end of the island. Do go there if you are on HHI.

The property is well maintained and has lovely floral decor with nice art pieces throughout. The back porch swing was a favorite of ours looking out to the peaceful lagoon. We did not see any alligators there but saw some small ones acroos the street at the adjacet lagoon. A local worker at a horse stable told us alligators can live in all bodies of water on the island bigger than a puddle.

The house had everything we needed for the week. Including a washer and dryer and lots of bikes! The only negative about the house is we were responsible for taking out our trash, the city trash center is about a 10 minute drive. This was not a huge inconvienace since we ate out for all meals but if you plan on cooking, I can see where this would be an inconvienance, having smelly, messy trash in your personal vehicle.

The Carolina room is great but has no AC and was abit too stuffy for use while we were there. the temps ranged from low 75 at night to high of around 90 during thr day. The Carolina room would be really great if the high is near 75 in the day. There are 2 fans in that room however.

The recommendations that the owner provides for resturaunts, shopping and activities are beyond helpful. This was our first trip to HHI and we apprectiated the owner's time and effort spent on all the recommendions.

HH Plantation is a really beautiful property with very friendly residents, people was always waving as we walked the paths and streets. HHI and this property is very pet friendly - we saw many, many dogs while on the Plantation and island. We would recommend this home/property to anyone staying on HHI. There is more than enough room for a family like ours, we bought our daugher and our furbaby.

The property is well located. Loved being able to bike on bike path up to a beautiful beach area. Mine had a basket that my little 7lb dog was able to ride in. The area is nice and quite with not alot of tourists. The restaurants serve very good food. Colleen is very hospitable and always there if we needed something or had a question. We did our very first zipline course on the island and it was a blast! Great fun was had by all!

We reserved our stay for our family from 9/11/18-9/15/18 as our son was graduating from USMC Boot Camp on 9/14. The Saturday before we were scheduled to leave is when all of the uncertainties of hurricane florence began and the Marine Corp social media sites began mentioning possibly moving the grad date up to Tuesday ( original day of check in). So being we had a 14+ hr drive ahead of us and not wanting to chance missing the graduation, i messaged Colleen to see if we could possibly move our stay up a day and without any hesitation, she gladly obliged and jumped through alot of hoops to arrange all the parking passes for the plantation, etc. Throughout our entire stay, she remained in constant contact with us to assure we were ok first and foremost and giving us constant updates on the storm. Her husband and herself are wonderful people who arent just in the business of renting out their home. They put the renters first over everything and assure that you have a wonderful time while staying in their home. Everyone in the neighborhood is so friendly and courteous in which is something you dont find often in todays world. The house has everything that you could possibly want or need throughout your stay in Hilton Head. There is a beautiful lagoon in the backyard, the private pool is within a 2 minute walk, and the lazy river pool is within a 7 minute bike ride in which Don and Colleen provide in their garage for the renters use. Again i cannot emphasize enough on how wonderful they were throughout our entire stay. We will definitely be back and if i could give this a 10 star rating, i would do without hesitation. Definitely was the best experience of anywhere we've ever had out of all our vacation rentals over the years. Thank you Don & Colleen for world class hospitality!!!

The Babcocks

The home was very comfortable with lots of privacy. We especially enjoyed sitting in the screened in porch area each morning having our coffee with our little dog! We loved the location because it was away from the busy southern part of the island yet very convenient to many restaurants, golf courses, and grocery stores. There are two very nice pools within 5 minutes of the house as well as a nature conservancy walking trail just across from the house. Colleen was great to deal with and provided plenty of information about the area and things to do within the community. We had a nice and relaxing time and will return again.

The house was exactly as pictured! Big and roomy enough for our family of 6 to spread out! It was so nice to have things like bikes, sand toys and boogie boards for the kids to play with. We rented 2 additional bikes as well because we needed trailers for smaller kids but Colleen recommended the Bike Doctor and they did not disappoint. We loved biking to the pools and exploring HHP a bit!

I enjoyed the space of cooking in a larger kitchen than many vacation rentals have, along with all the utensils and pots and pans anyone could want. The only thing about the kitchen was that the appliances were dated, but they worked perfectly.

Our only real issue with our rental was the misrepresentation of the lazy river in the photos here on HomeAway. As of 8/28/18, the picture being shown there with the lush greenery and people floating peacefully along, that exact lazy river actually belongs to a Hilton Resort in Florida. We were very confused when we went to the Spring Lake pool and it looked nothing like this. Don’t get me wrong, that pool complex is awesome in and of itself, so we were perplexed! I sent a very nice email to Colleen asking if HHP had a second lazy river because the one in the picture did not match reality. I gave her the benefit of the doubt thinking there was another one. When she said there wasn’t, I still gave her the benefit of the doubt thinking maybe she had never seen the lazy river since she doesn’t have little kids. When she told me that she has been there, she explained away why there weren’t blue inner tubes as if that was my complaint and didn’t address the fact that the picture she posted of their communities facilities, in fact belonged in Florida. I was super nice about all of this, thinking she would appreciate being informed of this (in a nice way) but all she said was “interesting” and that picture is still up. We would have still rented with the real picture of their lazy river but I would like to see an honest representation of what is there.

There were some issues with communication that really soured the experience for me. While I appreciate the vacation my family had while staying there, if we had to do it all over again we would have stayed elsewhere. Some of our emails were taken the wrong way with very unpleasant responses and that really messed up the whole experience. I also feel like every picture on the listing should be accurate and not misleading.