Very fun to be on Catalina Island - nice people everywhere, great hiking, beautiful views, and it was quite fun (and necessary!) to have a golf cart to use to get back and forth to town. Not as fun? After thinking we had a paucity of utensils and plates in the condo, the office suggested we look in the dishwasher, where we found an entire load of filthy dishes (think smelly caked on eggs and pancake batter plus chunks of ground beef!). We never did have any small size spoons, and the dishes are chipped, several pans too old and bent to work on the convection oven, and yes, they did bring an oven mitt to replace the one that was here that was somehow also coated with old food. Sheets were rough, the lamp by the bed did not work, the armoire in the bedroom creaks loudly enough to wake people (and we tried a lot of things to get this to stop -and we are light weight humans), and the wifi, which we had to reset several times, finally fizzled out completely. Staff did tried to help, though they did not call in response to the note we left on the app they asked us to install, and there was clearly no communication from the on-call person on the night we arrived to the day propel the next day. An apology for the dishes was lukewarm (she initially said "I think the prior guests were in a hurry"). Stay at Hamilton Cove but skip this condo! We did get a $150 credit, which was 10% of our stay.
