Overall-3.8
The good-The property & the location is beautiful. It sits right on the ocean and it has lots of windows to see out and appreciate the view. The property is very large & can accommodate quite a few people. Most of the bedrooms had black out curtains which was very nice. Unlike most properties, where only the master suite is spacious, this property had large rooms throughout.
The host-was accommodating and helpful on some items and not attentive on others. Part of this might have been due to 4th of July weekend. But the night before our check out, he texted us that we needed to leave by 10 AM. Our rental contract and the VRBO listing, stated that checkout time was 11 AM. I told him that the listing stated that the check out was 11 AM and he still responded that he could not accommodate us for a “late checkout”. Don’t advertise check out at 11 AM and then bully your tenants to leave at 10am. Very bad last impression.
The bad-master bedroom had a huge window without black out curtains. If you like sun coming through the windows in the morning, then you’ll appreciate the master suite. For those of us who want to wake up to a darkened room and want to sleep in, this was a huge problem. I did contact the host, and he did bring a curtain & rod but a lot of light still came through.
The bad-a/c-The system had two very huge issues. The first is that the whole bottom suite/floor, the AC did not work at all. I contacted the host on Saturday, July 3 and we were staying till Saturday, July 10. He sent an electrician on July 7 to look at it. It was not fixed by the time we left on July 10. My family who was staying on the lower level, left early due to the humidity and mugginess of the room and lack of ventilation in the bottom suite. This was sad.
A/c-The next problem was that even though the AC worked very well on two of the floors, the thermostat was a nest unit. Even though we would set the nest to 72°, it would automatically adjust to 78° constantly. So at night when we lowered the thermostat to cool it off so we could sleep, it wouldn’t matter cause I would constantly adjust to 78°. So unless you’re willing to wake up every 30 minutes and set it back to a lower temperature, the AC wasn’t very usable.
The bad-when we arrived there was massive amounts of sand, dirt & cobwebs on the decks that hadn’t been cleaned off in a while. Host did offer to come clean but was inconvenient.
We would return. Beautiful house and venue