I’ll start with the positives of this place: the location is great, it’s around the corner from the beach and next to a grassy area so it’s very easy to walk to the beach. Now some of the downsides: this is essentially a basement apartment that has no windows or outside space. No patio and only one of the bedrooms has windows. We had hopes of putting our kids down for bed and sitting outside at night to enjoy the cool weather, but that was not an option given the lack of a patio and the apartment is on a very busy street. We did go to the beach both days that we were there, and having little kids, we ended up with some sand in the house. We tried to vacuum up the sand, but the owners only had an old vacuum in the house that didn’t work. After we left, I got an angry message from the owner complaining about sand in the house. We paid a $200 cleaning fee, they didn’t provide us with a working vacuum cleaner, and it’s a house that they advertise as being close to the beach, so I’m not sure what they were expecting us to do. There were also missing essentials we had to buy. For example: we were provided two partial rolls of toilet paper and one trash bag for two nights. Thankfully a market was in walking distance. The kitchen is small and lacking supplies (e.g. only one pan, one baking sheet, no cutting board), so that made it hard for us to cook. We tried to use the oven, but it was dirty and set off the smoke detector so we had to stop. We ended up taking our food to the grills in the grassy area next to the place and grilling there with charcoal.
Overall, if this was a much cheaper place, maybe it would have been fine. But for the amount that we paid, I was not impressed.