I almost don't want to give a glowing review because we want to come back and we don't want everyone else booking! But that wouldn't be fair to Rachel, the lovely owner.
The location is spectacular, I had an easy walk to pier park for shopping, my daughter walked out the back door to the beach (towels and beach chairs provided!), and my husband spent the days fishing from the pier, also an easy walk. The house is roomy and well equipped. I don't think we needed to buy anything but food.
I have a few comments for future guests considering the house. They are only positive or negative depending on what you are personally looking for...
1. The house has 2 bedrooms on the street side and 2 on the water side. The street side bedroom are much noisier than the back bedrooms. Can't have this great location without being on busy Front Beach Road, though.
2. There are outside security cameras. Their presence is clearly noted when making reservation. I didn't think I would mind and I perfectly understand their use. In fact, I have them on my own house. But, gotta be honest, they creeped us out a little bit. We certainly don't do anything too camera worthy but I'm not sure I'd be great sitting in the hot tub (we didn't use it during our stay) with someone else's camera trained on me and we were always 'aware' of them.
3. Bedrooms: Only the small front bedroom has an ensuite bathroom. No closet, though. The other 3 bedrooms (2 back masters and the front bunk room) use common, very well appointed, bathrooms. But, you need to walk past the living/dining area to use them.
We are a family of three who picked the house mainly for it's location. We didn't totally like that the 4 bedrooms were placed kind of far away from each other in the four corners of the house. No two bedrooms share an adjoining wall. This had us occasionally going, 'hellooooo, where are you?' For another group this might be a great thing!
4. Finding the house. Because the house is on a busy street sometimes it's hard to slow down to look for house numbers. Also, the shrubs make it hard to see the house until you are beside it. Some kind of marker would be so helpful; a distinctive plant, a pink flamingo, a flag???? Maybe we're just slow learners? Great to park with protection from rain, though, and great to be able to turn around within the driveway.
Overall, we were very comfortable and thought the price was reasonable for what we got. We would book again.