The "Joy of Coastal Mountain Living" Cabin is in a beautiful setting, as other reviewers have commented. While the natural oaks, madrones and pines encroach on the boundaries of the property, the owners have given much attention and care to the grounds. It is truly a serene environment.

Similarly, the cabin itself is inviting. It's kitchen well stocked with cooking supplies, and the living room is cozy. This may be a matter of preference, but my wife and I did not find the mattress in the larger bedroom to be comfortable. We found it too soft for our tastes. However, the room is otherwise nice. Being the summer, we did not have need for the fireplace but it is a nice touch.

We did unfortunately have an occurrence that marred an otherwise enjoyable experience. Attached to the cabin is a game room with a pool table/ping pong table. It is only accessible from the outside via two sliders. On one evening, my nephew, myself and an exchange student we were hosting were finishing up with a game of pool and returning the room to the condition in which we found it. Ed, the host of the property, appeared in the room only to immediately inform us that the "room was off limits", that the owners must have accidentally left the door unlocked and that the house rules referenced the room being off limits.

While I had not seen that in the house rules, I naturally assumed he knew them better than me, proceeded to apologize and informed him we were finished and were in the process of placing the ping pong table back on top of the pool table as we had found it. Ed remained in the room while we did this, at times critiquing our efforts. When we returned to the cabin we perused the house rules, and there was absolutely no reference to the game room.

This whole exchange was bizarre. When we had arrived at the property initially we had what I thought was a good conversation with Ed, and the subsequent night, before playing pool, we had even called him to make sure that a repair man on the property who had followed us through the gate was supposed to be there. It seemed the situation with the game room could have been more tactfully handled by pulling me outside and having a conversation with me instead of in front of my 14 year old nephew and our guest exchange student. Moreover, it could have been explained as a simple mistake without any reference to the house rules, which make no mention of the game room. My nephew even commented he felt a little scared during the incident.

Despite this one incident, our experience was otherwise enjoyable and as other guests have not reported similar occurrences it might just have been a "one off".