独立したゲストハウス付きのボカグランデの@Delfulful 'Old Florida' Islandコテージ

Such delightful people...We are so pleased you enjoyed Boca Grande and "Little House". Thank you for taking such good care of our property. You were paradigmatic guests, and we welcome you back any time!

Thanks Kevan, you were outstanding guests. Thank you for staying at Little House. Come back soon!

Thanks for staying with us, you were perfect tenants in every way. Do come again!

Thanks Octavia! You were so great to work with…we are delighted you had a good stay. nuestra casa su casa anytime!

Thank you so much for staying with us. You were the perfect guests. Bad luck with the oven, really sorry about that, thanks for being such a good sport on that score. (I am not sure I, in your shoes, would have been so charitable.). That is being remedied as I type.

Thanks so much forr the kind words. You are welcome back any time!

I am so glad you all came and stayed in our house, and got a chance to enjoy Boca Gande. Thank you for being such excellent guests. You will always be welcome at Little House...thanks again!

A dump? Gee, thanks. Tell us how you really feel.... In fairness, we should not have rented to the reviewer, not then. The house was in the middle of significant capital projects (rebuilding the original wooden windows, installation of a new roof on the guest house, painting of the exterior and the porch.) It clearly was not clean enough, and yes, the carpets, subjected to the heavy heals of workmen, will have to be replaced. That said, there was full disclosure and the rate was reduced (we assented to less than the minimum stay as there was not availability on the island, the renter having booked all the rooms at the Inn.) The renter was fully refunded, including the ordinarily non- refundable deposit. The house will have updated furniture for the Autumn. As work is finished, we will update photographs.

We apologize about the wifi. New provider now, plenty of bandwidth. And in a concession to the video age, we have added reasonably sized flat screen, suitably tricked out with enough premium services that you can binge watch you whole stay away if you so choose. We beg to differ on other points. These were not Dartmouth professionals, they were a rock band (perhaps they went to Dartmouth?), which the tenant had hired for a party. Had we known, we would never have rented to this crowd. It is true we do not live on the island, but this house has been in the family for over 100 years. It's not some anodyne millennial rental party house. It's a genuine piece of the original Boca Grande. The cleaning crew's report was backed by photographs. The house was left a complete mess, and it took 8 hours to clean. We have worked with these cleaners for a long time, and have no reason to doubt their integrity. The drain, it turns out, had been clogged with sand (sand was all over the house.) Apparently, this lot was never taught to wipe their feet before entering a house, or rinsing their trotters when returning from the beach. So yes, the plumbing proved to be no match for them. And we had to pay the plumber to fix the fruit of their carelessness. As to the hot water, I don't know what to say. We've never had a complaint about this with any other tenants. We were just down there with my kids who are now at the age when they are prone to irresponsibly long showers, and we never had a problem. Any water heater though has its limits. If you run enough showers, for long enough, you will run out of hot water. And by the way, water is a scarcity in southwest Florida. (The renter probably does not care about this as his grounds on the island are preternaturally green, a condition that is seemingly de riguer for the legions of new money that have come to southwest Florida in the last 20 years. As for the fauna...if you know anything about Boca Grande, you know that there are iguanas on the island. Unless you put poison all over your property, you will have iguanas. If you don't like iguanas don't come to Boca Grande. This is Florida. There are critters. Live with it. As to linens, it was a rock band. Frankly, I don't want to know how they ran out of them. As to the guest house, I can't imagine what kind of snowflakes these people were. Never had a complaint before.