I regret this booking. We spent the first two nights of our 20th anniversary vacation at Mermaid Cottage. The cottage itself and the dock are both pretty amazing and almost live up to the photos. The photos don't reveal that directly between your beautiful porch and the dock are the caretaker's two little cottages. We arrived the first day to find him and eight family members sunning, fishing, crabbing, drinking and eating all over the dock. They seemed friendly enough and invited us to join them, but fckk that. I told you guys on booking that this vacation was a 20th anniversary and 50th birthday. You guys should not be advertising 400 feet of private beach. The area around his cottage is littered with personal items and trash left from cooking out, so you'll feel like a creeper heading to and from the dock. Our cottage was almost perfectly immaculate inside, but the exterior property was littered with random garbage. Much of this trash was light enough to have blown in off the beach, but some of the beer bottles and discarded caps were just discarded by Carlos and guests. The accumulation of seaweed along the beachline didn't bother me, but it was the volume of intermingled trash. You could tell there wasn't even a weekly effort to clean up. The second night was pretty good since we got to use that dock ourselves. Your beautiful coffee maker was disgusting. No coffee either morning to go with those beautiful sunrises. Not the first time I've discovered a clump of moldy grounds in the basket, but removing the plastic insert below I found the entire reservoir is caked in green mold also. I would have cleaned the basket, but the entire machine needs refurbishing. This location is about two miles north of the airport, so you will easily feel isolated and a bit unsafe if the situation feels off like it did for us.