The bad first:
The price estimate for this place was similar to others in the area, some were less expensive. I booked when Southwest starting flying to the prices were super cheap to fly and therefore there was hardly any availability for our date. There was actually only three for less than twelve hundred for our five night stay. Because we had already purchased our tickets we NEEDED to book a place. I read Silvia's instructions about extra fees but she doesn't list a price. It ended up costing us another three hundred dollars to stay at this place, and I was already committed by the time she responded. And she talks you into paying via PayPal so SHE doesn't get fees. Again, I understood this but that doesn't make it acceptable practice.
This place has NO air conditioning (as indicated in the listing) but the fans provided hardly did the job and they were full of human hair. It was only 81 degrees for our trip but it STAYED 90 degrees inside the condo all night. The condo entrance and bedroom windows face the parking lot where the sun is during the day.
Even worse is that if you sleep with the windows open, all the residents that live there leave for work at five to seven am so every morning you hear the room doors slam, then cars start and idle for ten minutes, then more doors slamming, etc. Don't expect to sleep past five uninterrupted.
We were given one full and one quarter (still on hanger from previous tenants) rolls of toilet paper for our five night stay. Seemed inadequate.
We only had two garbage bags so it made it hard to keep things clean and we were only two people.
The bathroom doesn't have any air circulation so you can imagine the sauna it became when going number two for twenty minutes.
The windows to the bedroom aren't secured, they fall off when you open the window so if you left the condo but wanted to keep the air moving in an attempt to cool, too bad.
The old lady that lives next door permanently listens to her TV at full volume all night but still uses Closed Captioning. We could still hear it over the sound of the fan and CLOSED windows.
We found a used bandaid in the sheets. It looked like it had been washed and was stuck on the face up side of the sheet, where the maids should've seen it.
The good: Plenty of kitchen gear to cook with. Lots of pillows for two people. And steps to the beach.
The best part, the coral reef in front of the condos. It's easy to snorkel for novices, just bring water shoes just in case you get pushed onto the coral, and we saw all sorts of fish and even swam with 3 sea turtlesthat were swimming by. When you're sitting up on the grass area, you can see them swimming by and just wade out and swim with them. So amazing!