Very good find for a single family with dog. It is right on the beach, though with the renewed beachwork at Broadkill this makes for a bit of a trek (150 meters/yards?) over the dune to get to the water-- and that sand is HOT!!! Too hot for doggie paws (ours had to take breaks and lie down on the way!), but we were there in a heat wave. Note that this is the Delaware Bay, and not the Atlantic Ocean proper... so no big waves, and at our visit an absolute TON of jellyfish, making it pretty much impossible to swim, unless you like the idea of swimming in bubble tea. And though you don't feel the sting immediately, wait a few hours, and you'll be covered in horrible itchy bumps (if the jellyfish are spawning, as they were our week).

In the cottage, the electrics are very old, and the plug-in lamps etc. have very frayed cords, so it was a bit frightening... we unplugged everything when we went out or went to sleep. A/C was not good enough to keep the cottage under 85 degrees or so in the heatwave... we roasted, but less inside than out (except when the power went out for a few hours one afternoon).

There is a great screen porch that we used a lot... right on the beach (though because of the dune you can't see the sea). A screen porch is essential, because there are a lot of horseflies, stinging flies and "greenheads"-- which bite or sting. But unfortunately the screen is very old and not sufficiently secured (big huge gaps), so flies do pour in, and then into the cottage. Can't say we slept very well there.

This all sounds very negative, and it is true that we were unable to see the water from the cottage, burned our feet getting to the sea, were stung by jellyfish and their venomous spawn, eaten and stung by bugs, overheated with poor a/c, worried about electrical fires, and had to chase a mouse out of the house.... but somehow we still had a very nice time. It is cozy, rustic and relatively inexpensive, and there are very few people on the beach. Nice for dogs... and great to go out at night, lie on the beach and look up at the stars-- it is really dark, very little light pollution. Cape Henlopen is not far, and you can hit the beach there on the Atlantic (though it is very crowded).

So all in all an adventure (not to be repeated).