This property should be (and could be with just a little attention) fantastic. The condo is roomy, well laid out, and perfectly located, plus the beds in the four bedrooms are excellent. However, we would not recommend this place to our friends for the accumulated small reasons described below.
First, we are an experienced VRBO family group, and we (2 grandparents, three couples and 4 grandies all under 9) have done these trips together to Belize, Pass Christian MS, Vail and Crested Butte in the past. All of those trips were great, and our reviews were, too.
This manager (owner?) wouldn’t need to do much at all to make this a tip-top vacation rental. Here are our observations:
Guests over those in the 4 bedrooms are to sleep in a sofa bed and two inflatable mattresses. No problem there, except that the inflatable mattresses depend on a battery-powered pump that has to charge for 8 hours before it runs for 20 minutes. No direct AC-to-pump action. Plus, one of the mattresses went flat under the weight of two 5-year olds.
There were no toiletries provided except bars of soap. This was surprisingly inconvenient.
Kitchen was well-equipped in terms of knives and cooking utensils, but had some aggravating deficiencies:
Gas range had one burner that lit as designed, while other needed spark propane wand.
Glassware and dinnerware was basically adequate for 8, but really for 6 if things were to match. 12 was a real stretch. The kitchen lacked some essentials like a dish scrubber or cutting board, and was stocked with one roll of paper towels and no napkins. Fridge ice maker was not hooked up, there was no coffee grinder, and the coffee maker was a cheap Sunbeam that didn’t work right.
The dining table had six chairs in varying degrees of seat sag, a couple pretty darned sad, and the deck offered only four very nice rocking deck chairs.
The BBQ was a rickety shallow square affair that basically didn’t work. (We are from western Colorado and know all about high-altitude grilling.). Most annoying was its filthy condition when we arrived. The area had been under fire restriction due to drought, and this was the manager’s excuse for its condition. Actually, contained charcoal fires are allowed in the stage one restrictions then in effect, and while we there all restrictions were lifted. We spent 40+ minutes just cleaning the grill, but finally had to finish the kabobs under the oven broiler inside.
