The place is not detached from the main house. It is not an entire place it is a downstairs converted room. You enter through the garage. When a place says that it is an entire place I expect it to be stand alone. This is more a security issue for me and we did notice that things had been fiddles with ( ie the thermostat) when we were out. Other than that the place was clean and Rumesha and her mother where nice people and the check in went smoothly.