The place is lovely and darling, but we had a really bad experience.
Place: 80s-tastic but in a cute way!! Super interesting layout to the house and the hot tub on the patio overlooking the ocean was SO NICE (although it could stand to go a few degrees hotter). Great room situation / floor plan for two couples and a bunch of kiddos.
Two small downsides to the house which are: 1) There's only two bathrooms and one is in the master bedroom. So... depending on how many people are coming that's potentially ALOT of people needing to use the second bathroom and 2) It's not outright stated on the airbnb page but the photos imply that you can walk directly off the patio onto the beach. You can't, there's dunes and it's fenced off to protect the wildlife. Beach access is still very easy -> the path is maybe 200 yards from the front door, but the point being you do have to go through the front door and walk down the road before you get to the access path to the beach. If you had dreams (as I did) of just stepping from the back patio onto the sand, this place doesn't have it. Although I should point out - neither does any house in this area, the dune protection thing is everywhere.
Our experience: I'm pretty sure we were the first people at the home post opening up after COVID. Which was fine, but it was clear no one had gone to check in on the place prior to make sure nothing had broken during the ~3 months it was closed down, and helping to make sure everything was fine.
Everything was not fine. First and foremost the wifi didn't work which, given that we weren't coming on vacation (we had been working from home in our 1200 square foot condo in SF since COVID started, we were just coming to work with a change of scenery and we hadn't taken any time off), was a huge to do. Cell service is terrible in the area and we were reduced to using our phones as hot spots and eeking out a signal (we almost drove back to SF it was so bad). The cell service is best in the master bedroom so we spent every day between 8 and 5pm locked in the master bedroom trying to join zoom/webex/check email/make calls. The internet did get fixed on the afternoon before the morning we departed, but somehow the management team "made it our accountability to be home when the technician came" which is really bad form in my opinion. The ice box was frozen over when we arrived, the trash hadn't been picked up when we came in, etc. None of these were huge issues for us but net net it was very clear no one had checked in on the place before opening it up. I will say however that our host Brandelia was very quick on responses. That didn't necessarily mean things got fixed quickly, but the communication was effective.
Net net - for the price point we were paying, to have had that level of mishaps was pretty disappointing. Hopefully other renters won't have this challenge since it is likely linked to "being first post COVID." While we were impressed with the house itself, we weren't impressed with the quality of the maintenance in this particular situation. We won't be back.