This place has ALOT of positive reviews, this is not one of them. So first off, yes the apartment is by the beach so if your priority is to be close to the beach then you're in the right spot. Now you should be aware that the door leading in to the apartment building is a door made up of 80% glass. Once in the hallway, all the apartment doors (4 apartments) are that same glass door meaning unless you cover it up with something people can somewhat see in. It's not window glass where you can conpletely see through it, more like shower door in the sense where it has a pattern for some privacy. We did not feel safe with those doors but maybe that's just us.
The cleanliness was not acceptable. Weird big white stain on one of the windows and the walls in bedroom had "dustballs" collected and stuck on the walls. One of the corners in the bedroom had a dust filled cobweb hanging nicely. The entire apartment had sand sporadically over the floor and the bedroom had some long hairs left in it meaning there was no vacuuming done prior to our arrival. There was sand stuck to the wall in the living room, and the floor had not been washed in a very long time. The bedsheets for the pull out couch had stains all over them, clearly had NOT been washed which is unacceptable! The towels also had some weird stains on them which could just be something that didn't come out in the wash but if that's the case they should be replaced with new ones... this would be unacceptable at any point in time, but considering we are in a pandemic and this host had committed to a "rigurous cleaning" prior to arrival I find this absolutely disgusting and irresponsible. Since there is no ac (which is mentioend in the listing) you have to keep the windows open at all times to get some air. There is a liquor store right below the bedroom window and they have a door chimer that goes off literally twice a minute until midnight which can get somewhat annoying since closing the windows isn't an option during the warmer months.
We did reach out to the host when we got there and they responded to our phone call immediately so like other people have commented they do respond quickly. I also asked about bringing our cat with us, which he allowed us to do and I am very grateful for that.
If anyone doubts this review (since there are tons of good ones) we do have pictures and video that was sent over to airbnb and airbnb confirmed that the host had failed to clean the apartment and therefore we were refunded and we moved out after the first night.