Beautiful View In Slaughter Beach! Pet Friendly

This house was really wonderful - it is right on the beach. There's an amazing private balcony, and a small staircase from the house to the beach. The house was very clean, well decorated, and had everything you'd expect (except towels, sheets, and toiletries, as it says in the rental agreement). Also - the photos do not do justice to how large the house is - it's a very large 2-bed 2-bath.

The beach is also excellent - it's quite small, ~40-50 feet from dunes to water, but there is plenty of room to lay and it's a nice quiet beach to walk along (you'll have to wear shoes, parts of the beach are a little rocky). Slaughter Beach isn't a great swimming beach - the water is shallow and quite murky. For a swimming beach, it's ~20 minute drive to Lewes, which is a beautiful and popular public swimming beach.

I couldn't be happier with how this stay went.

The property was the cutest most quaint beach house! It was right on the Bay so it made such an easy access on and off the beach. Our little dog loved the big windows and free range of the beach :) the view was amazing! Thank you for such a quiet, peaceful vacation. We will definitely return.

The apartment was perfect for our family and dog. For the price (~195/night), the slightly odd decorations (mentioned in other reviews), a few aged things like the blinds, and the lack of linens were easily overlooked/outweighed. In fact, the apartment had quite a lot of charm that grew on us. The beach was great and very convenient! Horseshoe crabs could be seen on the beach, which was a cool surprise! The water in the bay was warm enough for a young child to "swim" comfortably, but the size of the bay allowed us to still feel we were right on the ocean (i.e., couldn't see land across the view, some small waves). We will definitely return next year if possible!

We had booked the upstairs and backside unit to see the Horseshoe Crabs. That property is right on Slaughter beach so that is nice.

But that is where the "nice part" ends. It seems like the house needs regular maintenance since we found that the A/C was not working, when we arrived at this property. That night the indoor temperature was 80F and the worst hit by the heat was my little kid. We tried opening the windows, but we couldn't since the window screens had holes in them which was allowing the insects to get inside. A few windows were missing the screens too.

For the length of our stay the Air-conditioning did not work resulting in us being totally dissatisfied with our stay indoors. I understand that appliances do break down every now and then, but the A/C unit was not working even when we entered the house for the first time!

The property managers helped us out by buying us two floor fans. But since one of the most important and fundamental amenities advertised on the property's page was not working even before we arrived, I strongly feel that we overpaid for each day of stay.

I shared the photos of the thermostat readings with the property managers so that they can understand the issues we had at this property. In other reviews, people mention that they "enjoyed the view in the comfort of air conditioning", but that positive highlight is not something we experienced.

Great beach for Horseshoe crabs! Nice clean house, great view of the beach.