Alex was a very accommodating and friendly host. He offered to help decorate the place with balloons for my sister’s surprise birthday weekend getaway, and even had a missing bathroom item delivered to the house for us.
The pool area and back yard was beautifully decorated and the plants and greenery are really beautiful. There were some cleanliness concerns with the pool and hot tub that my brother had (pool & spa business owner) that eventually lead to him just “fixing” some of the issues as best he could without his normal work gear, like cleaning a very dirty hot tub filter, leveling the pool so the skimmer would actually work and suck up bugs etc, and a lot of skimming and cleaning the bottom as best we could without a vacuum.
The worst experience in the pool area was the consistent rat foot traffic along the roof and fence line at night time, which lead to us not enjoying the space out back much after dark, and after our first night seeing them all. The host was apparently already aware of this issue when it came up in our communications after the first night..
The inside was well decorated and pretty comfortable in the living space. Again, there were some cleaning things that could have been better, and no fans in the bathroom with windows that don’t open was not ideal. The refrigerator filter was expired and the water was not good so we do recommend buying bottled water to fill the large fridge.
Location was very convenient to all things we were trying to do while in Ft. Lauderdale. We were able to park 1 vehicle in the driveway and 1 in front of the house on the street.