Let’s start with the positives first...
+ great location. You cannot see the ocean from this unit (426) but it does have a beautiful view of the bay. The rooftop has a beautiful overlook onto the beach.
+ rooftop pool, well heated hot tub, lots of lounge chairs.
+ very close proximity to the beach, and the rental included 2 beach chairs already set up, as well as 2 additional beach chairs and 2 small umbrellas located in the unit for you to use.
+ the host had great communication and also had a high chair and pack and play available and set up for when we arrived.
+ they were kind enough to let us check in early
+ uber cost us ~$30 from Miami airport and ~$12 to Ft Lauderdale airport. We’re glad we didn’t have to deal with parking because $35/day is absolutely absurd. (If you DO rent or bring your own car, park elsewhere. Parking is far cheaper all around the area.
+ hot water in the shower + facial soap, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, & lotion supplied.
Unfortunately, we had a lot of issues during our stay. I imagine pre covid that this unit was much better maintained, but for the price we paid (nearly $300/night after you consider all the fees that get tacked on) for that price, save your money and stay elsewhere.
-the unit wasn’t the cleanest - the floor turned our feet black, the hallway bathroom had a terrible sewage odor, and the master bedroom sheets had to be changed because they smelled sour or like they’d set around wet for too long. (They were clean crisp white— so not dirty, just bad smelling.)
-listing is inaccurate, the master bedroom has a beautiful bay view, but they are not ceiling to floor windows like the pictures depict. It states kitchen is well equipped, yet did not come with hand soap, dish soap, or any soap for that matter (concerning during a pandemic...) also be prepared to buy your own paper towels as there are no dish towels or anything in the kitchen. We had to buy our own trash bags, coffee filters, drinking water. For $300 a night, you think they could fork over the extra $10 to have these very basic amenities. It’s strange the things they have stocked— like 3 plates, 4 bowls, 1 wine glass, no cooking utensils, 4 sets of tongs, only 1 sharp knife...
-multiple outlets did not work, lights and lamps were burnt out, no batteries were in the tv remotes.
-the fridge was not working properly... it kept tripping the breaker which would start an annoying cycle of incessant beeping and then finding out all of our food had warmed up. Thankfully we were only there 3 days— but a week worth of this would have meant all our groceries would have spoiled.
-probably the most disappointing thing was notifying the host of these issues and being told that someone would be there the next morning to fix it. At 10am, the host stated someone would come by soon. We waited until 11 (not really on our agenda during our vacation) and decided to go to the beach. Maintenance and cleaning ended up coming by after 3pm... so I was thankful we didn’t wait. Maintenance replaced the batteries and burnt out lightbulbs, but was unable to fix the outlet issues, the refrigerator, or the sewage smell. Although the man was very friendly, I would have rather not spent part of my day waiting for all these people to enter the unit in their shoes, walk all over the floor where my baby was crawling, and come to find out not even be able to resolve the issues we had. Maybe if we weren’t in the middle of a pandemic I wouldn’t have been so weirded out, but I felt like it was unnecessary exposure to others and to germs for issues that should have been noticed and taken care of before we arrived.
Like I said, maybe pre-COVID it was better... but for $300 a night, you can stay at a very nice hotel or another Airbnb. Look around before coming here.