The place is absolutely gorgeous. As you read in other reviews, the backyard is even better than the pictures, especially at night. The location is great. The beach is 10 min away, riverside (an area I recommend) 10 min, Miami 40 min away. The house has everything you need, minus a vacuum which if you aren’t doing a long stay (we stayed a month) you probably won’t need. From band aids to aspirin, pans, even a few spices/oil the house has it. A couple things that could make the place a 5 is the pool is pretty old and worn down. When we got in it looked fairly dirty. After we were there a couple days we realized because of all the beautiful landscaping the pool gets quite a few particles fairly quickly from the trees etc. that being said the pool could use a good resurfacing. This didn’t bother me but because the yard is so big there were landscape care that came thru and we had maintenance guys there quite often. The women I stayed with did not like that they were not always announced as one was breast feeding. Lastly and most important the pool lights did not work for about 1/4 of our stay which was disappointing. It’s dark and sometimes lizards jump in the pool so it was a bit scary to go without them. The host was very apologetic and did bring over a bottle of wine and apologized for the inconvenience which was very thoughtful. We would def stay with Alex again and very much enjoyed Ft lauderdale.