The Positives: Very close to the beach, fun neighborhood with good restaurants and rental shops. Close to the Grocery Store. The house was comfortable for seven, better stocked kitchen than other rentals, furniture was mostly good.
The Less Positive: Someone had spit watermelon seeds all over the kitchen/living room, and the cleaning staff had not found them all, so we ended up cleaning up a lot of someone else's seeds. The shower upstairs doesn't drain well. The Brown couch under the living room window is worn out, and has indentations where people have sat that just collect sand. When we arrived, the front door lock didn't work, and there were no instructions on how to "reset" it, and nobody was answering either phone number. This means we were stranded on the front porch with all of our bags for about an hour when we arrived. After I sent a few emails, I finally got someone on the "emergency/after hours number" and they were able to explain how to "reset" the lock so that it would take the provided code. The lock had to be "reset" a number of times during our stay...kind of frustrating. There is a spigot on the side of the stairs outside that you can use to wash off sand, but the same space is also occupied by parking for tenants for other buildings. Being that close to the beach, sand washing should be better sorted and at least explained. There is a fair amount of traffic noise at night, and you have to keep the windows open because there is no AC, but the sea breeze makes up for it. Overall, despite a few pecadillos, we would stay at this rental again, although at the rental price, I would expect fewer issues.