Booked this place because of all the five star reviews and we did have an overall good experience, but there were definitely some cons.
Pros
- Location is walking distance to the beach and lots of restaurants
- Private and quiet area
- Amenities that were offered with the location like the pool, grills, and tennis court.
- There were lots of items available for us to use for a beach day like folding chairs, an umbrella, etc.
- Free parking on premise
Cons
- Ants: right when we checked in, we noticed ants crawling around the bathroom sink. The house manual does warn against these, but I would think that they would be cleared out prior to someone staying there. We did have to purchase any removal stuff, but the host was kind enough to reimburse us for it.
- The whole place has a musty stench to it. Could not figure out where it was coming from, but we smelled it throughout our whole stay.
- The listing said that body wash was included, but there was none in the bathroom when we checked in. Luckily, we brought our own but since we weren’t expecting to use it we didn’t bring enough and ran out. Again, like with the ant removal product, our host reimbursed us for the body wash we had to buy.
- In our opinion, not enough towels were provided. We were only given two beach towels, which we had to reuse each time we went to the beach or did a water activity. This was difficult because the towels wouldn’t dry off fast enough before our next use. Also, one of the beach towels had lots of brown stains on it.