Our family had a wonderful stay. Carlo's family home is a fabulous retreat, and he did everything possible to make sure of it. The layout of the house allowed our multi-generational reunion time all together and time apart for catching up on a more personal level. We would have stayed longer if we could have. It was easy to get over to Santa Cruz for sight seeing but hard to leave the house and Aptos as it felt like we had everything we needed there. Personally I could sit around the firepit table and look up at the trees for hours if left to it- such a peaceful setting.

One warning for some families- the walk to the beach was a little too long/steep for some of the older members of our family, but the rest of us enjoyed the short walk and even went for a family run to and along the beach one morning.