Marcia and Paul's cottage was a perfect home base for our family's beach vacation. They were excellent, responsive, and thoughtful hosts. The Sea Esta accommodated our family of four perfectly, and after days at the beach, salt pond, marsh, etc. we loved coming home to the air conditioned comfort of the space. Our children are young (4 and 5), so we did drive to the beach by car, but we rode our bikes around the neighborhood several times, took walks, enjoyed the salt pond, and even rode our bikes to ice cream one night. Although the beach is AMAZING here, Charlestown has so much other stuff to do despite being a laid back more mellow area...we kayaked, enjoyed Ninigret, biked, walked, ate lots of ice cream, and got takeout from Matunuck Oyster Bar which we ate on the beach. Another bonus was being able to bring our wonderful but large Rottweiler with us to the Sea Esta, so our whole family was able to enjoy vacation. We highly recommend Marcia and Paul's space and the area!