Pros: The house is charming and in a great location. The beds are very comfortable and there is a plethora of fluffy towels. The kitchen and bathrooms have obviously been renovated and are in excellent condition. The house has a lovely back yard with beautiful landscaping, an outdoor grill and a table and chairs to eat al fresco. Khalil couldn’t have been more accommodating. The house was very clean with one exception (see below).
Cons: Two of the bedrooms lack closets and mirrors. This could easily be remedied with mirrored armoires as there is plenty of room in the bedrooms for them. In the bedrooms that had closets, the closets were full of things. They could easily have been cleaned out with their contents stored in a locked closet. Also, some of the bedrooms are poorly lit and, most important, lack reading lights when one is in bed — once again, easily corrected. There are three TVs — two in bedrooms. The large-screen downstairs TV was impossible to use. Khalil was wonderful in trying to help us work it out, but even he wasn’t able to operate it. We could use only one of the bedroom TVs; the remote to the third-floor TV was missing. The shelves above the sink in the second-floor bedroom were dusty — overlooked by the otherwise excellent cleaning crew. Also, the sink in that room doesn’t work and if it were functional, it would have been useful for one of the women sharing a bathroom.
All in all, our stay was very pleasant and with those few changes, this house would have been perfect for our party of four “80-and-late-70- somethings”.