We really like this place; its wonderful!
Upon arrival, we found it nice and clean. Our lockbox checkin was smooth. It’s a really nice place; everything is very clean, cozy, and comfortable. The hot tub was ready to go. We would definitely come back.
The photos are accurate. The couches and beds are comfortable. The kitchen is well-stocked with many pots, pans, plates, bowls, cups, and silverware, and plent of other dodads. We did make use of the pyrex food storage containers we brought, so we could use them to warm up leftovers, as we did all of our own cooking for every meal. The hot tub is fairly new, sparkling clean, and ready to use upon arrival. The shower water pressure is excellent. It seems like an older home, and yet everything was in perfect working order and nice and clean. The lights don’t brighten up the living room as much as some might like, so I would only suggest maybe they add some brighter ceiling lights. There were many soft towels: 4 per person… can’t beat that! Wall decorations added to the very cozy feeling. Whoever decorated did a very nice job.
The location is really nice. We biked the path to Pope and Jameson beaches. We took kayaks from Jameson beach to Baldwin Beach (marsh is closed to kayaks this year). We biked to Valhalla and Tallac (parts of Tallac are closed). We made a reservation at the horse corral and had a lovely ride! We went to Fallen Leaf Lake for deep shade on the hot days. We always find our way to the Camp Richardson Icecream Shop, about 10 feet from the bike path. One thing to be aware of is that while Lukins Way is a nice quiet street, the backyard is on a much busier and noisier street with regular loud traffic and some loud street maintenance sometimes. This makes the backyard a little less relaxing, but it all quieted down by the time we wanted the hot tub each evening.
In the meadow just a short walk west of the home, we saw a bear! That meadow also has a tire swing. So many bunnies, squirrels and chipmonks! We also saw many woodpeckers, stellar jays, robins, Canadian geese, blackbirds, crows, gulls, magpies, chickadees, margansers, a tanager, and 2 osprey!
So many wildflowers: fields of lupine and mule’s ear. Tons of columbine, pussypaws, sierran woodbeauty, yarrow, snow plant, warrior’s plume, stickseed, penstemon, wild rose, and allium; a photographer’s dream.
We would definitely come back; we had a wonderful stay here.