Love the view from this unit. Just don’t look down straight from the balcony to the pool if you have a fear of heights. It feels like your in the tall tower or something. Love that you can get free ice. :) Love that you can wash your wet clothes or dirty clothes in the building if needed. Love that the pool, jacuzzi, laundromat, small convenience store, and free ice is on the same floor, 6th floor. Love the walking proximity to the beach, local eatery, restaurants, shopping, grocery, Starbucks, and so forth. Love that Avery’s place is beach ready… it has beach umbrella, sunscreens, beach towels, snorkeling stuff (please clean before and after use), just no bodyboards. Love that the place has small fridge, induction stove, coffee maker, and flat iron that you can use. Love that Avery is just a text away and also quick to reply if you have questions.
The top on my list that I didn’t like is that you have to pay for parking, it is $35 for 24hrs with in and out privileges. The building does not give you a discount even if you want to park a couple of days. So it is expensive $$$ to park inside the building. Luckily, the building is near the canal which is free parking on the side of the canal if you see a spot though. It is also somewhat a residential area too so everyone parks there or some doesn’t know how to share the parking space that they take up all the space so you have to be lucky enough if you can find parking there. And please check the signs for street cleaning time cause it will be a no parking on those times. Another option for parking is the metered parking. We did drove around the area so be attentive of the one way street when finding a metered parking. It is coin metered parking only so prepare some coins with you. Max to put coins is for 2 hours only but you can come back and add more. I think it was $3 or $6 for 2 hours. But the way to go around about it is that we parked on the metered parking (if no spot in the canal) when it was almost time to get the free parking and just move the car before 6am to the canal area since there will be space by then.
But other than the parking issue, the experience was GREAT. :) We pretty much needed a place to sleep at night since we just drove around the island to search for beach spot, hiking spot, and local food so the stuff I mentioned that I love was just the icing on the top for our whole trip.