- This is a beautiful, well appointed property with lush and diverse gardens surrounding the home. Alex is a super responsive and communicative host.
- The beds are being replaced but during our stay they were pretty uncomfortable (sheets were soft but 100% polyester + the bed was soft with a dip in the middle).
- There are 5-6 cameras on the property. Two of which are located *inside* the house with another prominently placed in the backyard spanning the lounge area, the pool and hot tub. While the backyard is quiet and private from neighbors the cameras are always on and it’s not exactly “private”. There’s also a gardner and a pool service man who appear on the property at times during the week. So, if you’d rather not be seen while sunbathing that’s something to consider.
- The house has fantastic A/C and was clean. The linens and towels were extremely clean. The floors could use a bit of TLC but otherwise we really trusted the sanitization practices and the house even smelled clean and fresh upon entry. Lovely sunlight filled home!
- The pool is HUGE. It’s also $200 a day to heat and you can only heat the pool OR the hottub at the same time. This isn’t ideal. We stayed at another lux property with a massive pool and it was only $50/day and we could heat both at the same time. Alex is great tho and very responsive for when you want to switch between the pool and hot tub heating.
- We were a little bummed that the pool guy showed up during prime daylight to treat the pool. He was supposed to be the for 30 minutes but stayed for almost 2 hours hours and then told us not to swim for 2.5 more hours because of the chemicals. So this was almost 6 hours of no pool use. This was a bummer because we lost our day by the pool and were paying to heat it.
-The guest policy was a bit funny to us. Basically even though the house sleeps 6 people—your reservation is limited to only 2 people. If you’d like to have a guest or additional person for a night or two Airbnb’s system applies an additional guest fee to the entire duration of the stay. Alex was helpful and ended up billing us separately for only the nights we had a guest there but the “no guests at all on the property” and the fact that we paid for house that can sleep 6 people but had to pay extra to add a single adult felt a bit unfair. I’ve just never come across this with Airbnb before. Nevertheless Alex was lovely and helpful and even though we felt the pool and additional guest fees were a bit much we really appreciated how easy it was to connect with Alex and trusted that these policies were in place to order to protect the listing and keep it sustainable.
- Ultimately this was a peaceful, beautiful home and we’d stay there again in a flash (but with new beds/bedding) :)