THE LOCATION: Unbeatable. We’ve been visiting HHI for 25+ years, coming at least once a year for the past 16 years, and staying in Sea Pines for ninety percent of those visits. Staying in Harbour Town is such a great spot. I love the convenience of walking to the bakery in the morning for breakfast before going to the pier to see the dolphins that often hang out there in the AM, and strolling along the harbour at night before grabbing a drink at the tiki hut. I believe the trolly also has a couple of stops there in the summer, so getting to the beach is convenient.
THE HOUSE: The house was very nice. It was clean and nicely updated. Mattresses were nice. Bathrooms were great. The view from the back patio is amazing, looking out at that beautiful tree and the water, and you are treated to gorgeous sunsets from there.
My complaint would be the kitchen. It was so disorganized, poorly stocked, and all of the cooking items were just so worn. I am sure that under normal non-covid circumstances, a home like that isn’t one that people use to do much cooking, however, it would serve them well to spent a few hundred dollars to go through their stock, replace some things, and make sure they had everything a cook would need.
CHECK-IN: We arrived at the address in the e-mail and were very confused. We were at a real estate office and there was no signage anywhere for the rental company I had been e-mailing with (Coastal Vacation Rentals).
For everyone’s future benefit, the lockbox is at the door on the right on the side of the building that has parking and two entrances. I missed it and ended up unintentionally interrupting someone’s meeting in the real estate office. The gentleman in charge of their rental business was offsite, and no one else in the office seemed to know the lockbox existed. We had to wait for the man to come back with the keys. We had gotten there earlier than check-in probably was, so again, not at their fault we had to wait! However, my advice and request after the whole ordeal would be to update to a keyless system. For a house that sleeps so many, it’s so much easier anyways than to have to coordinate who has the keys.