These hosts are completely hands off after they have your money, except for that they are recording everything you say and do from their Ring doorbell (kinda creepy). Note This is a condo/hotel and they are self managing their private unit from 2000 miles away and were unable/unwilling to help with several issues we had (air conditioning was insufficient and not working properly as you cant set it below 75 without it breaking down, CABLE TV DID NOT WORK, room safe inoperable, no exhaust fan in bathroom, etc). The host was unable to tell me why the cable tv didn’t work and his rude answer was “sorry, you can watch tv down by the bar, did come here to watch tv or enjoy the beach, or you can find another place to stay.” Don’t bother asking the front desk because they’re not affiliated with this unit and will not help with anything associated with this unit. Valet Parking is $15 a day, not $10 as stated plus a lot of tipping. Balcony is directly above hotel entrance (noisy day and night as tiki bar is open till 2-3 am) and overlooks the parking lot which explains why there are no balcony view pictures. The public hotel trash room (nothing more than a room with garbage pails and not to be confused with a trash chute) is directly across your door 3 feet away and is noisy day and night with people dumping their bottles, cans and trash and it SMELLS. The privately run laundry facilities are in the basement but will cost you dearly.
In summary I have stayed at dozens of ABNBs and these are the worst, most inhospitable hosts I have ever encountered. The least they can do is supply you with beach chairs and umbrella (as other hospitable beach hosts happily do) so you don’t have pay $10 a day for each (it really adds up by the end of the week). To be fair some of these issues are lightly addressed in the rental description but I highly suggest you read in between the lines like an attorney would. If you read it more carefully as I should have, you can literally feel their inhospitable attitude in their rental description/agreement especially towards the end when they describe the early/late, checkin/checkout requests. To quote “if you want to request a early/late, checkin/out they have 2 suggestions:
1. Find another place
2. Book another night
End quote”
I personally would not stay here again and would not recommend it.