Sunny, secluded Cape short walk to Lambert's Cove--year round

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We headed to the vineyard to run the marathon for the second year. As a group of adult runners and their spouses we were looking for enough bedrooms and a nice kitchen area for a family dinner. We had a couple last minute cancellations which left it just 3 of us siblings and one friend. It ended up being the perfect house for what we had planned. As it was it was pretty big. We all had our own rooms with plenty of space for more. What was the best was the kitchen/dining area. It was perfect for cooking and eating together. We didn’t make use of the basement but there were bikes and a ping pong table. There are 2 decks and a nice yard. We enjoyed the indoor fire place while lounging on the couches post marathon since it was a rainy weekend. Long story short, we loved it! Highly recommend staying here. It was a great location near the beach as well. We hope to be back!

The owner was exceedingly accommodating to our various needs and responded promptly.

Spent the last weekend at this house. It is so clean and cozy!.

The owner, Lisa, has been very nice to answer all my questions before we stayed there.

A nice beach within a walking distance, very convenient!

You do need a car to get to other places.

We really enjoyed our stay at Elizabeth's house. We were four adults and four kids (9, 5, 3, and <1) and we stayed for a week in the summer. The house was clean, the beds were fine, and everything essential worked great (dishwasher, washer, dryer, fridge, etc.). The sliding screen door to one of the decks was broken/always off track but I have found that true of 30% of all sliding screen doors I've ever met.

You do feel nicely secluded among trees and I imagine if you don't have small children, you could have a really nice relaxing morning sipping coffee on one of the decks, or an evening cocktail listening to birds. Yeah, I bet that would be nice for some people.

There was a nearby house that had some rowdy frat dudes the last few days we were there that we could hear at night. They liked to play drinking games and then vomit in the wee hours of the morning. Not the house's fault though!

It is a short drive to great bakeries, the grocery store, Vineyard Haven, and a little further, Oak Bluffs.

The house is definitely walkable to Lambert's Cove, which is a wonderful beach for kids, though it's not really walkable if you are hauling chairs and food and blankets and stuff, so we ended up driving to the beach, dropping off the bulk of our people and supplies, and then one of us would park back at the house (we didn't have sticker for the car to park at the beach) and do the walk back. It was pretty easy though and worth it to spend a full day at the beach.

There is a pack and play and a stroller, though the stroller is quite large so I wouldn't use it for downtown Vineyard haven or Oak Bluffs trips. We didn't bring our umbrella stroller from home but we wished we had it for shopping in town. The high chair provided would be fine for a toddler, but was not suitable for an infant.

Definitely check out a sunset at the beach. That was gorgeous the one night we did that.

The house worked really well for our two families, I'd definitely recommend it. We all loved the tasteful and stylish decor and the other family even said they wanted to redo their own home to incorporate some of the decor elements.

Elizabeth and Lisa were super responsive throughout our planning process (we booked 11 months before the trip!) and very easy to work with.

Finally, they have Pump Up The Volume with Christian Slater and Stealing Home with Mark Harmon on DVD available for you to watch. So that was pretty cool.