Firstly the GOOD: the house is well stocked, I am very well. Two crock pots, plenty of plates, utensils, cups- even plastic ones to take out to the pool, and a ton of great books and games in the house to keep you busy! Lots and lots of seating and space for large groups! Two small wine fridges upstairs and one regular fridge in the kitchen. They had about 5 bikes in the garage, but all in varying levels of working condition. There were two beach carts BUT they were both broken in different ways. If you can rig it up, they worked. There are tons of beach chairs too but again, in varying working conditions- some were more usable than others. Shampoo and body wash in the showers. The LOCATION was the best! Less than a 5 min walk to the beach- if you walk fast 3 mins. It has private access from off the pool with pavers then a small sidewalk like pathway to the beach. It is off marker 46 in Sea Pines. You can park one car in the garage and 4 in the drive, you get 5 passes to Sea Pines.
The BAD: Missing clocks in any of the bedrooms. The only actual clock we found was on the microwave in the kitchen. Recommend putting alarm clocks in each bedroom. (this is not much to complain about actually). Also, the dryer takes a long, long, long time to dry. Yes, we cleared out the lint trap and that didn't make a difference.
The ULGY: Apparently the oven was not working upon arrival and Vacasa was aware of this but did not notify us prior to arrival or when we checked in. Looking back through the reviews, issues with the oven has been mentioned sporadically since March 2023, multiple times. We are a large group and planned on cooking in the home daily. This obviously made an impact with us. They would have not mentioned the issue or updated us on any progress to rectify this if we would not have reached out to them very often. Apparently, "the part is on order" to repair the oven and they felt that since there is a microwave/convection oven combo (again typical size of a microwave) and another (much smaller oven) in the home it should not be an issue. It was an issue for us-for example, it took us 1.5 hours to make bacon for everyone in the house in this very small oven (about 12 inches wide) to use that only had 1 to possibly 2 trays when forcing it to fit in it. They ended up reimbursing us something after a lot of back and forth and pushing, albeit it didn't cover the actual costs of us to get meals outside the home for all the days there. This was the only real challenging or disappointing part of the entire process. Communication would have been greatly appreciated from the start so we could have planned accordingly.
Overall: We would stay at this property again, it is well suited to host large groups and you can tell the owners took pride in keeping it well stocked with thoughtful additions.