The Good stuff:
- Owner very responsive.. No later than 10 to 15 minutes to respond to texts at normal hours. Voice connections easily responded to.
- About 20 minutes ride from SD airport. Not too much of an issue (may depend on time of weekday though. We reached late night on a weekday).
- A very clean place, absolutely spotless, clean paint etc. Clean vanities, towels, pillow and bed covers.
- Everything as amenities in the kitchen (needed for cooking, non-perishable stuff), bathrooms and in bedrooms are there, and provided for, in abundance. 3 bedrooms with portable fans and big comfortable beds etc. Don't bring anything, except maybe your toothpaste/brush and personal items.
- 2 full baths upstairs and 1/2 bath downstairs, convenient and clean.
- The garage though looked narrow & small, could easily accommodate our Dodge Caravan minivan (seating 7). A bit longer vans like Toyota Sienna or Honda Odyssey may not fit.
- A small enclosed back porche where you can sit out in the open. Privacy is there with a reasonably high fence.
- Beach about 15 to 20 minutes drive.
Things which could have been done better to handle the below small issue:
- A bit hard to locate the house in the midst of a sea of houses/condos and abruptly ending tons of very narrow lanes in front of homes (if you make a mistake you can only back out of the narrow street to main street, no easy way to turn around and drive on those narrow streets).
We came at 11pm in the night and spent almost an hour to locate the house: Google Maps doesn't do it. It points to main entrance on the mains treet. And there may be 500 houses in a maze of lanes to search and Google Maps is useless.
Solution: Upload onto your cell, another free GPS App called "WAZE". It accurately points to the house to the door. I wish I was told this by Homeway or the owner before I traveled or that I got a map of the housing setup along with directions.
The owner did tell me about Waze on my pointing this, and it worked great after that.
Another thing if it matters to you: It is a little bit old house (as is everything in the neighborhood) but as I mentioned, it was kept spotless and clean paint etc. This was not an issue for us.
Happy journeys!