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Thanks for your review Vincent. So delighted that you had a great time during your stay in our Monterey Bay Guest House. Your concern about the high cost gives me an opportunity to explain to future guests that they have two options when booking a vacation stay. The first option is to book directly through the owner, which is the less costly route. The second option is to book through VRBO as you did. You only see the VRBO rate quote, not the owner quote, when you first inquire about a reservation. By e-mailing and paying directly with the owner, you'll save paying the non-refundable damage insurance fee ($59) and the service fee (which is between 10% to 15% of the booking fee) on any VRBO quote. Many of our guests book through VRBO, similarly as you did, as they don't realize they have the option to book through the owner and save $100, generally more, per reservation. Pertaining to your remark about the additional guest fee above 2, we do that to provide the lowest rate to 1 or 2 guests. Larger groups of 3, 4, or 5 require the use of additional rooms, so we charge a minimal fee of $15 per person per day above the 2 guests to cover the additional expenses.

Thanks for taking the time to do a review & recommending our guest house vacation rental. Delighted you had a great time while vacationing in our beautiful county. The guest house as advertised does not have a full kitchen, and is stated as such on VRBO. This is a restriction imposed by the county, over which we have no control. The upstairs is a large studio area with a sitting room. The space has a king size bed with views of the outdoors on 2 sides & stars visible at night through the overhead skylight above the bed, a sofa that seats 2 or 3, and a fireside chair. There is an extra wicker chair in the closet nearby to add to the seating. Downstairs as advertised is the exercise room. This was not designed as the “common area” with space enough to accommodate a living room. Sorry you did not find enough seating in this room but due to space limitations we didn’t have enough room to accommodate the exercise equipment & a seating area. Again thanks for the feedback which gives us an opportunity to clarify our listing description.

Thank you for alerting us to the need for a living room. We took your suggestion and converted the exercise room into a very nice sitting area with two chairs and a sofa. The sofa is B&B Italia that easily converts into a twin bed, making an additional sleeping area when needed. Much better room and much greater use when compared to its former exercise designation.