Pros: Jon and Emily were extremely responsive hosts and easy to communicate with. They knew I’d be traveling with a baby, and reached out ahead of time to offer use of a pack ‘n play or anything else to make traveling with a child easier. The space had cute decorations and was in a pretty convenient location. We were about 30 minutes from Chimney Rock and 15-ish from a lot of the other restaurants/breweries that we wanted to go to.
Cons: I really struggle writing this because I feel like our experience may have been out of the ordinary, but also want to accurately represent our experience. We had an issue with cleanliness when we got to the house. There had been a bachelorette party previously that hadn’t been fully cleaned up from, so there were random sperm confetti in a couple rooms and leftover balloons on the floor (Emily did refund our cleaning fee which I felt was fair). I found lots of debris under the edge of most furniture (ex. bottle caps, wrappers). The thermostat upstairs didn’t work the first evening so we had to contact Jon and Emily for them to fix it remotely (Jon came by the next day to check it out - again, these two were really responsive and easy to communicate with!). We also had a big issue with ants in the kitchen to where we basically couldn’t leave anything on the counters. One of the upstairs toilets seemed to constantly clog. There were a few broken/wobbly chairs through that we had to keep pulled to the side. The main smoke detector on the first floor had been removed (thankfully we didn’t need it), but kind of scary had there been an emergency.
We traveled with a one year old and picked this place in part because it was listed as “family friendly”. I wouldn’t recommend this place to a family with toddlers/crawlers, but it would work well for a family with older children.