I must admit that I take no joy in writing this review, but our disappointment was completely avoidable and unacknowledged. Our host assured us, in writing, that the house would be cleaned before our arrival. I made crystal clear that I am VERY allergic to cats and dogs and asked if that might be an issue. I was assured that cleanliness and animal hair would not be a problem.
We arrived with our entire family and baby and were absolutely astonished to discover a house that had not only NOT been cleaned, but a house that was downright dirty and unfit for guests (Especially those paying several thousand dollars for a family holiday!).
In plain site of the entire main floor, just outside the kitchen door, the deck was covered in dog poop! I'm talking about 5-6 separate helpings of dog poop! All over the place. Some of it old and hard as if it had been there quite a long time!
The interior floors were covered in dirt, dust and dog hair-- everywhere, you couldn't miss it if you tried. Dog food dishes on the floor with dog food kernels all over the place and bowl of dog water coated in wet dog hair! In the small TV room, we rolled the couch trundle back to free up space and BAM! months, if not years of dirt, dog hair and random lost objects fully coated the floor.
At this stage, it reveled itself to be such an unbelievable situation that we started taking pictures of the various offenses as evidence.
The refrigerator was absolutely packed with random old food, dying produce, several cartons of opened milk and the shelves were coated in gunk. It was gross. We resigned ourselves to two shelves and scrubbed them down for our stay, avoiding the rest.
Upstairs the shower floor and walls were coated in that icky layer of gunk, complete with hairball in the corner. NOTHING HAD BEEN CLEANED, ANYWHERE. It was totally out of control. There simply could not have been less effort on display.
We'd booked the place two months prior and had ongoing dialogue with the owners throughout, yet we literally had to spend the first hour of our vacation cleaning, scrubbing, sweeping and scooping up poop in someone else's home.

It set a truly disrespectful and unsettling tone for our stay. I say this as a seasoned traveller, knowing full well that staying in someone else's space brings with it variety of other elements and tastes. This was not that. This was gross.

Otherwise, the house itself is lovely. The photos do it justice. The neighborhood and everything else were as advertised.

But putting paying guests in that position was wholly unnecessary and unpleasant. To add insult to irony, we were charged a $300 cleaning fee.

Customarily, we cleaned up after ourselves before leaving.