This is a hard review for me to write because J M’s unit was lovely and the balcony views were insane, but the whole experience was a bit underwhelming and frustrating.
I’ve stayed in many AirBnBs over the years, but never one that is attached to a hotel. Our first impression of the unit was made during check-in - the front desk staff was quite rude to us and told us about the many processes of the building but did not sufficiently explain them. Check-in set the tone for the trip and it felt like more of a school trip with lots of rules than an actual vacation.
We were there for 2 nights/3 days and were disappointed to find that we could not use the hotel amenities on the day of check-out. The $30/day resort fee for the unit (which is charged to your credit card by the hotel, along with a $250 security deposit, separate from the AirBnB charge) includes 2 beach chairs and 4 pool towels. We were not given a pool card because it had not been returned from the previous guest, so we were not given any beach towels that were “included.”
The beach looked lovely/super convenient in the listing photos, but that is not the area of the beach that J M’s guests have access to. Our beach chairs were actually quite a ways down the beach in front of another hotel/residence building, which made it difficult to run back up to the unit for drinks or snacks.
The unit itself was pretty bare- eight bath towels and four hand towels for the six of us. The kitchen had some plates and tiny bowls, five coffee mugs, zero dish towels, zero oven mitts- not a huge issue if you’re not planning to cook anything/drink coffee, but I’d messaged ahead of time to check on cooking supplies and was led to believe the kitchen was better equipped than it was.
We made the most of our visit to Hollywood, Florida and J M’s unit, but if we were to do it over again I would find another place to stay.