I struggled with the decision to write this review because honestly I didn’t even stay in the place. I ended up leaving two stars only because Trevor responded quickly with a full refund when I alerted him of the state of the house when I arrived. Let me back up though. We arrived a day later than expected due to flight delays, which I’d communicated to Trevor and requested a refund for the first day without response. When we did arrive late on a Thursday night, the place was completely unclean. Clearly no one had cleaned up following the previous guests. Open bags of food, open drinks greeted us along with used bath towels and an unmade bed and a musty smell. I haven’t encountered anything like this as long as I’ve been using air bnb (pretty much since it became a thing). While I do appreciate Trevor’s prompt response upon waking to photos of the mess and his full refund, it’s the expected response, nothing above and beyond. He also passed the blame along to his maid which, whatever the situation is, I wish he’d just owned up to the fact that his name is on the property, the state of which fell very, very short to meeting expectations in this case.
As far as the location, VERY close to the beach, so if that’s your primary goal, then it’s a good spot around lots of other beach vacation rentals. I do think (like many other air bnbs) the listing photos vastly over-represent the size. My fiancée and I had planned to both work from here, and in the end it wouldn’t been a bit too cramped to do that comfortably. We ended up staying elsewhere after our first night’s experience.
My guess is that after this experience, this won’t happen again. I’m sure it was enough punishment for the hosts to have to refund the cost of a 5-night stay. So I don’t mean to paint this air bnb with a broad brush tainted by what I expect to be a rare yet unfortunate experience. But I do want to be honest about what we experienced.