Pros:
•Plenty of space indoors & outdoors - great for large groups to stay. Plenty of seating for dining. The beds were comfortable and clean.
•Friendly neighbors in a quiet neighborhood.
•Beautiful spacious kitchen. It was really helpful to cook for 10 people having two dishwashers, a stove & grill, and plenty of countertop space. Not to mention 3 coolers for storing water, soda, beer, etc.
•Great location- 15 mins from airport, beach, and only about 5 mins from stores and restaurants. Ubers were very affordable.
Cons:
•Most importantly: no privacy. There is a camera in the backyard facing the pool/hot tub. The motion light went off 5 times when I was simply sitting in the hot tub w my husband one night, making us feel so uncomfortable we went inside. It feels like you are always being watched. A neighbor even informed us that the hosts have a drone that they fly over the property to make sure you aren’t having parties (note the strictness about parties in the rules). Who does that?!! (AirBnb has been made aware of this) The AirBnb listing also says you get “the entire place”... false. There is a sign on the door to the garage that says “private room” where you can see a mattress in the middle of the garage. Sooo is someone else staying there/spying on you during your stay?? I certainly would like to know if a stranger was in my house if I had my kids there. Not okay.
•Don’t let the photos fool you... the space has a lot of broken things (all of the sliding screen doors are all off the tracks, half the locks to the bathrooms/sliding doors didn’t lock, one stovetop nob is broken, patches on the walls, the pool/hot tub has a leak somewhere so the water kept getting low)
•The place isn’t very clean.. The cushions on the patio chairs were completely covered in green algae/moss/mold. The fur rug in the living room is absolutely filthy- our feet turned black from it. The pool was dirty when we arrived... they came in the middle of our stay to clean it for some reason, where they dumped so many chemicals in (without warning us) that all of our bathing suits got completely bleached/ruined! The drains in the tubs don’t drain. The garbage can in the kitchen smelled awful when we arrived. These are things that are small but add up and go a long way to guest satisfaction. No one wants to swim in a dirty pool or shower in someone else’s dirty water.
•The host is a bit unprofessional. When we wanted to add 2 guests to the stay, he requested money. Totally fine. So when I asked how much/per how many guests, he replied with exclamation points/threatened to contact AirBnb/and freaked out. I simply asked a question-we just wanted to know how much money we owed. Then he sent his co-host in the middle of our stay to come clean the pool and “look at some of the broken things”.. why wasn’t this done before we arrived? Finally, when we left, he tried to charge us $100 for towels. The picture was of 7 white towels that each had a brown dot on them. First of all, bleach costs $5. Second, I know 100% that we did not ruin any towels, and an 8-pack on Amazon is $40. It is my belief that he charges guests to keep the money, because if he actually fixed any of the things that have been damaged in the past... well, the house would have looked more like the photos. And this listing wouldn’t have multiple reviews all complaining about the same things (stovetop nob, dirty pool, tub drains, patio cushions).
If you don’t mind any of these things and can look past them, then this is your place. It was a great stay for our large group. Personally, we would never pay as much money as we did for this stay for all of the grief we had to deal with while we were there.