Overall I am giving the stay a 3 of 5 stars... due solely to the price we paid and lack of communication prior to our stay. Lori was a great host and did allow us to check-in a couple hours early, and the unit was overall in good condition. However, we did have some issues.
We did enjoy ourselves in OB. Lori was a great host and was responsive to some of the issues we faced while staying there, such as blowing a fuse when the heater and microwave were on at the same time. Lori was doing construction in her other unit 5 of the 8 days that we were staying. There was constant power tool noise and lights dimmed because I am assuming the two units are all on the same breaker. Making the mornings a bit... loud and quite frankly a little annoying. Not to mention, the workers kept parking in the driveway and street parking was quite limited. However, on the positive side, since it was so loud, we were out of the house and had our day started pretty early. Lori did apologize for the construction, however, for the price we paid for our stay ($1846/ 8 nights), and had we known there would be construction, we probably would have spent that amount of money elsewhere.
Positives:
- Great location and within walking distance to OB
- Lots of space for a family to enjoy a getaway
- Patio space is really nice (wish we got to enjoy it)
- Clean sheets and towels
- Nespresso Espresso machine was a great touch
- Nice range for cooking
- Grill
- Comfortable couch
- Awesome TV and lots of entertainment options
- Shower gels, shampoos and condition, lotions in the unit if you need it
Negatives:
- Very loud construction in the adjoining unit for the majority of our stay
- Mornings were very cold. It got down to 55 degrees some of the mornings with the heaters running (the only heaters in the unit are plug-in space heaters)
- Running space heaters and other appliances at the same time blew a fuse which was annoying to keep turning off the heater to be able to use something like the microwave
- Smoke Detector is directly above the stove. Since grill was out of propane when we checked-in, we had to cook on the stove, and while searing our food on the pan, it set off the fire alarm a few times
- Workers kept parking in the driveway and a couple of days we had to park a few houses down to be able to get into the unit due to street parking congestion
I hate to give bad reviews, but I wanted this to be as truthful as possible and base this solely off our experience with the unit.