Mark and Hope are excellent hosts who clearly love what they do. We spent a few days here with a baby and a toddler, and we managed to enjoy ourselves despite tantrums and colics! Hope had surprises (cookies, muffins, home made jelly) for our toddler (and us!) every day, and they both had plenty of conversation to go around! Their dog is the sweetest thing, and we’re only sad that it wasn’t warm enough to feed the fish.
The location is amazingly beautiful, surrounded by redwoods everywhere. Yet it’s a short drive to anywhere, really. A short and gorgeous drive. And the nearby grocery store has pretty good hot food available, so it was very good for a quick dinner when we didn’t go out to eat.
The set up (two rooms, one with a queen bed, the other bunks) is perfect for families. When the bedroom door was closed, there was excellent sound insulation, so that we didn’t need to be super quiet after the kids were in bed. And the top bunk provided hours of fun for our toddler, who must have gone up and down the ladder 100 times.