Beautiful house in a decent location, and was comfortable. When it is quiet after sunset seals and waves can be heard upstairs. There are lots of birds in the lagoon, and bird song even though some minor urban traffic noise. Two outside upstairs balconies. It was hot all day/night upstairs more than down stairs in September but when weather cooled radiant heat was amazing well… hot. Quiet neighborhood minus trash pick morning as in most neighborhoods!
Beach is great for people who want fire pits at night. Would not walk barefoot on this beach not just because of dogs off leash/ not picked up after, but because of pieces of wood in the sand that could be a problem.
Because of the wide variety of responses to the pandemic: mask, no mask, used correctly or not, Vax, no Vax, cleaners clean conscientiously or not, tested, not tested, tests unreliable… So many variables so… We did not want anyone in the house after a few days of us airing it out. Create our safe home zone. We are still in process on full vaccination, had the first variant already and need to be careful. The owner knocked on the door wearing a mask (Thank you) each week to check on us. Have to say a big Thank you for getting the dryer after it broke so we could use it. When the vent wasn’t working we tried to clear it then she had someone come to do it - in the odd place it comes out on the ground near the slider. Amazing design feature.
Some suggestions: When we arrived at the house it was night time and very dark - no lights came on. So just be careful. The house did not look like it had been deep cleaned in awhile but told Carol after the first day or so. She was not happy about this. Guess she wants to trust the housekeeper does what she is supposed to. We were able to manage the sink back ups which don’t happen to us at our house. They had the liquid plumer under the sinks so fairly easily handled. Had to buy test sticks for the hot tub- just the usual taking care of a house kind of things. A comfort thing for the guests is to have more bedside table space and a little light in each room for each person. A decor suggestion: a more decorative way to lock closet on lower floor. It would be nice to have half the closets in both rooms readily available, to comfortably hold hangers, and to have easily accessible shelving open for use.
Overall we would recommend staying here. Enjoy!