We loved the house!!!! My college classmates and I have been doing a long weekend together since 1993, and everyone agreed this was our best accommodation yet. Sparkling clean, everything we could want in terms of comfort. When I look at a listing I always check how many can sit down at a table to eat, and how much lounge seating there is — it's not enough to sleep six if we can't all sit down to knit and eat! This house has it all. Even a Little Free Library at the end of the road. There are no full-house short-term rentals in central Asheville — it's illegal — but this one is convenient to everything you'll want to see. I'd give it six stars if I could.
My only caution — and this is not Douglas's fault in any way — is that automobile navigation systems seem to fritz out sometimes here, maybe due to mountain interference. (My husband and I moved here a few months ago and it's happened to both of us.) This did happen to me when I was looking for the house on my way back from the airport in the dark with our last arrival. I suggest you have WAZE on your phone, if you have a navigator, or print out driving instructions beforehand and read through them a couple of times.