The house is lovely as a property and the location is perfect (5 mins from the beach) but it is in need of some TLC and a professional clean. it felt like it hadn't been stayed in for a long time (lots of spiders and cobwebs etc) and it was not clean. The beds were cheap and old and it is not well equipped if you are entertaining for a group. (Kitchen lacked basic utensils, BBQ was filthy and unusable, has an Xbox for kids but it doesn't work etc.)

We had to pay a private bond of $1000 to the landlord at the time of booking which we found odd (why couldn't we just pay this the week before we stayed?) and we felt it was expensive over all. Having said this we did stay over Xmas so paid a premium for this.

What we found really frustrating was that there were numerous huge signs stating how the property should be left at the end of the stay. Vacuuming and mopping floors, cleaning inside cupboards, scrubbing showers and toilets etc!!! We were paying to be there on a holiday, we aren't free cleaners!!

Given the state of the property when we arrived we felt as though the owner was asking us to leave it in a significantly better state than we found it.

We assume that professional cleaners are not actually used and the owner just leases it out and the tenants on holiday clean for the next guests and nobody cleans it in between stays, if this is not the case then why ask tenants to do so much cleaning??

If this was made clear to us before we booked we would not have stayed and in all we would not stay again.