Overall our stay at the property was enjoyable, but only because of the company we were with and location of the property. If I was reviewing based solely on the condition of the house I'd have rated it much lower.
Pros:
-Location! It was pretty amazing to be right across a sandy road to the beach. You could hear the waves and it was lovely.
-Space, the house was roomy enough for our family of 10 and we were able to fix a turkey dinner and seat everyone at the table. There was plenty of parking for our cars.
-Our family loved the puzzles and games provided at the house.
Cons:
-DIRTY house. The carpet smelled bad upstairs, felt tacky underfoot and left your feet brown if you walked around barefoot in the house. The carpet in the rec room downstairs smelled like urine. The bathroom downstairs had a visible gross hair clog in the sink, and the shower curtain was covered in mildew along the bottom. The upstairs bathroom also had mildew. I had to clean surfaces in the kitchen myself and just about every piece of serving ware and cookware in the cabinets needed to be cleaned before it could be used. Found a dead cockroach in the dishwasher.
-Inaccurate listing on both VRBO & their website. The second bedroom downstairs has a FULL bed, not a queen. Lee clarified this when I requested the linens and I was surprised and disappointed- we had based booking this rental on the fact that it had two queens and a king. If I had known it was a full, we probably would have rented elsewhere. Luckily the couple that had that room weren't big people.
-Linen & towel rental. This is such an outdated and odd policy. I had asked for them in our initial response and never received a reply. Then had to ask them last minute because there was no confirmation of renting linens & towels. BTW, the linens and towels aren't great quality either. Synthetic sheets and mismatched towels.
In sum, I wouldn’t stay here again unless they deep cleaned the house, hired a new cleaning service and replaced the carpets. When plugging in a phone charger I saw how much dust and dirt was hiding behind the bed and it was gross. I get that it’s an old house, and the floors and walls are crooked and all that is fine and expected with a house that was built in the 30’s, but I don’t see any excuse for a dirty house. It had the feel of a college party house and that was a big bummer for our family.