The moment we walked in to the house, I said out loud, “this is not what I expected”. Nothing looked original to the house, it had cheap furnishings, minimal window treatments, it was typical of a beach town dumpy rental house. There was no glimpse of glamour or luxury that was mentioned in the description. The disappointment continued and I will outline it below. Despite this, I hadn't planned to write a review and planned to just use it as a learning lesson and know I got tricked and learn from it to not use AirBnB again. Had I looked closer at the photos, I should have noticed more than I did.
That opinion changed when I got home and realized a rodent had been in our bread while at the house. While at the house, we had planned to cook at least a meal a day. That did not happen. We got groceries and made toast the first day and then never used the bread again. While packing up everything to bring home, I threw the loaf into a bag and didn’t notice what had happened until I got home and unpacked. I found the bag had been chewed through and a large chunk of the bread was gone. I ran every single scenario through my head of what could have caused this other than a rodent but none are plausible. There is missing bread, not just smushed bread and the hole in the bag was very obvious. I am traumatized but shouldn’t be surprised because there was rotten wood all by the back door so there are many possible entry points for rodents.
I feel like my expectations were higher than they should have been walking in because of the misleading post that mentioned luxury and glamour and also with the high cost of the rental, I hadn’t looked as closely as I should have at the photos. Had I known what this house was like instead of the glowing language and strategically staged photos, I would not have chosen to stay here and want others to have a better idea of what to expect.

While it is in a good location and has a decent pool, that’s pretty much where the positive ends.
The weird-
It seems that tvs and table lamps are used for decoration in some rooms. In one bedroom, there is a TV that doesn’t even have a cord and in another one has a cord that hangs down with no outlet remotely close to it and no extension cord. Same for table lamps. We went to turn lamps on and found they were just sitting there without any outlet nearby.
There is not one closet in the entire house. And only one or two rooms even have a dresser so there is nowhere to unpack your clothes. I have never encountered this before.
Use of the words glamorous and luxury in the title- there is nothing glamorous or luxurious about this house. And after finding evidence of rodents, I believe this even more whole heartedly. When it was first built, it was likely a beautiful, glamorous duplex. Over the years, it appears it has had many different configurations and very little to nothing of the original house remains. It is filled with cheap furnishings, has water damage in the tv room on the ceiling that has been somewhat fixed, but not painted and is in need of a LOT of love.
The layout makes no sense. It seems like the house was configured to cram as many bedrooms as possible into a space. I believe it maybe once was 4 apartments after starting as a duplex and now is the single house.
The annoying and somewhat nitpicking
No pool towels and the bath towels are old and not in optimal condition.
Downstairs bathroom doesn’t have a towel rack. It is noticeable because it must have come down and they didn’t repair the wall after. Also, no towel was left in there.
They claim to have a fully decked out kitchen but don’t even have oven mitts. We had to use one of the minimal towels available as an oven mitt after reheating something.
The bad
Mold - the washing machine is covered in mold. It is a front load that people clearly have used and not let dry before closing it. I tried cleaning it out to make it usable but it is so caked on that it wasn’t possible. I also saw mold above the door in the back of the house that looks out to the pool and in the ceiling of that room in the hvac registers.
HVAC system- I saw in old reviews that the HVAC system didn’t heat or cool the downstairs and that the owner had addressed it. It wasn’t addressed sufficiently because on the cold days, it was still 60 degrees downstairs with the heaters set to 70.
The bedrooms all have either no window treatments or sheer curtains so light streams in from the moment the sun rises. There is one bedroom without a window, but it is a problem in the others.
Street noise- the street noise is louder than I have ever experienced, including in much larger cities.
If you are a small family, looking for a beautiful house with nice amenities, this is not your house. Go stay at a hotel. If you are a group of 10 trying to pack in to a house and don’t care about much because you won’t be in the house much, and don’t mind rodent roommates, it might work for you.