I hate writing unpleasant reviews, but unfortunately our stay was less than desirable. I'd say the start of my bad impression was the fact that the deadbolt didn't lock which made me feel unsafe staying in the unit, it was just my child and I and the only thing locking the unit was a regular ball door knob that looked like it belonged on a bathroom door, that could be easily broken into.
Next was the cleanliness of the unit.
I'm not sure why you pay a cleaning fee when you walk into a condo that hasnt been cleaned.. Dirty floors to the point where we had to wear shoes the entire time in the condo because our feet were black from taking them off in a matter of minutes on arrival when we changed into our swimsuits to hit the beach and get our beach bags situated. The pillows had stains and the bed sheets just felt dirty, given the bed bug bites on our legs I'd say we were probably right. Stains also on the curtains as well as the outside patio cushions. The patio table was dirty and the patio floor also looked like it had never been washed. All the little rugs had stains and slid around the floor, also a safety concern.
I verified with Donna prior to us arriving that there was snorkel gear available to borrow as I saw on a prior review there was. I had purchased some at home to bring and not worry about it, but prior to leaving really didnt want to deal with transporting the gear, but I wish I would have.. unfortunately the snorkel gear at the condo had not even been rinsed out from the last guest with lots of sand still in the goggles and mouth piece, so we were unable to use the gear. Dust and dirt around every base board and wire plugged in, I didnt even want to touch the AC cord to plug it in. There was also thick dust in the standing fan and as someone who sleeps with a fan on that was unfortunate it couldn't be used. reserved a condo with the intent to eat in and cook some meals at home, unfortunately the dishes were not even entirley clean, I used one of the mugs that were hanging for coffee that had stains to boil some water for tea in the microwave and when I pulled it out, the stains were gone letting me know the mugs were just plain dirty.. the other cups did not look pleasing to drink out of either and so we did not and that goes for the remainder of the dinnerware, it felt like sorting through items at a thrift shop in the cupboard - dirty, dusty, stained, cracking etc. When I tried to use a large knife to cut some fruit, the handle bent in half and I realized the handle was broken and attempted to be taped back? I'm not sure why as the knife was dull on top of being broken and was clearly ready for the trash, so that didnt work and was more of a safety hazzard than anything. During our time in the unit we had been accumulating some trash as expected, especially with all the take out food we had to purchase in lieu of not cooking in the condo, I was unable to even find spare garbage bags, so I had to take out the trash every night. Lastly, there was paving occuring in the complex the last 2 days we were there, we were never given a heads up by our host about this and rather came back to a note outside our door.. the first night of the process we only had to park on one half of the complex making our walk to the unit a little further than usual which wasnt a big deal, but the second night we were unable to park in the complex at all and were given no instructions on where to park - I emailed our host and never recieved a response.. I found a spot a few blocks down and was just grateful my rental didn't get towed the last night we were there.