Booked for our Thanksgiving trip. After arriving, realized beach was closed for restoration. No beach access. The restoration ran 24 hours per day, every day. Huge, noisy equipment with dredging barges illuminating the beach.
Contacted owners - they say they emailed us notice of this AFTER booking, even though the listing had nothing other than beautiful pictures of the beach and bragging about the access. All other correspondence was through VRBO messaging and USPS (?!?!?). We suspect that either their screen shot of the email was either made up or went to junk. We tried to reason with the owners, but the only option they gave was for us to leave, refund the remaining days, minus all fees. Since everything was already booked up and our thanksgiving meals, etc. were prepaid - going home was not an option after driving all day with 2 young children.
The owners are misleading and unethical. They knew the beach overhaul was happening (they claim it was delayed, but this is not true). They chose not to change the listing to show this. If they did share the information like they claim, they chose the most unreliable method (email), even though they required the contract signed and physically mailed back to them.
We’ve stayed in Seawind multiple times before in other apartments. While the interior of this apartment was ok, the rest of the property is starting to get run down. The pool and hot tub are filthy and the other shared spaces are in disrepair.