We ❤ being innkeepers and have been hosting for 12 years with over 500 five-star reviews. New to VRBO, we look forward to sharing our little slice of heaven with you!
"Best BNB ever! Cynthia and Jim were amazing! They were extremely accommodating and hospitable. They stocked the fridge and baked homemade blueberry banana bread for us when we arrived."
Quiet neighborhood in the heart of the action — super close to downtown. Two blocks to Palmer Events Center. Convention Center, restaurants, clubs, hike/bike trail, Lady Bird Lake, Barton Springs Pool are all nearby. Private entrance studio, massage chair, powerful rain shower, secluded screen porch.
THE SPACE— My husband and I live in a bungalow home, one short block away from Barton Springs Road, in the hip and popular Bouldin Creek neighborhood which is next to downtown. We rent a bright and cheery high-ceiling 400-square-foot 1BR/BA studio with a private keyless locked entrance and shared screened-in porch surrounded by a lush garden. Registered with an operating license through the City of Austin; we absolutely love hosting and are happy to offer suggestions based on your interests. It's been a beautiful journey for us to meet so many wonderful folks that have stayed here from all over the world throughout the last 9 years!
Our location is SUPER convenient; rated by Walk Score as very walkable, good transit and very bikeable.
• One block to Barton Springs Road and El Alma, a fabulous interior Mexican restaurant with outdoor patio overlooking the city and happy hour seven days a week. Walking distance to lots of other great restaurants and clubs too.
• Two blocks to the Palmer Events Center, Auditorium Shores, and the ten-mile-long Lady Bird Lake Hike and Bike Trail where you can visit the famous Stevie Ray Vaughn statue and watch North America's largest urban bat colony fly out from the Congress Avenue Bridge at sunset. Boat rental options available nearby for sunset bat tours and dinner cruises.
• Only 1.3 miles (short bus ride/walk) to the Austin Convention Center, especially great if you are coming in for SXSW or conferences. Just a few blocks or 5 minute car ride to downtown businesses, Barton Springs Pool, Zilker Park (where ACL Music Festival is held), Palmer Events Center, The Long Center, and Hyatt Hotel.
• Equally close to the thoroughfares that "keep Austin weird" ... SoLa (S. Lamar Blvd.) with good restaurants and great music venues, SoFi (S. First Street) with eclectic restaurants and funky galleries and shops, and trendsetting SoCo (S. Congress Avenue) where hip shops, excellent restaurants, and the one-and-only Continental Club line the avenue.
About the studio — eclectic Japanese-inspired decor. Perfect for two people. Relax on a fantastic reclining massage chair after a long day. Then curl up on a deluxe and comfortably firm queen box-spring mattress with Molecule's Air-Engineered™ mattress topper to experience the comfort and cooling of recovery-focused sleep. Drift off under luxurious high-thread count cotton bed linens and a cotton blanket or down-alternative comforter depending on the season.
Enjoy the great outdoors in comfort in a shared screened-in porch which overlooks a beautiful garden and outdoor seating area. This is also the entrance to your studio. Fresh-brewed coffee and home-baked breakfast bread or muffins will be waiting for you there!
A welcome basket prepared for you with chocolates, snacks, and fresh fruit, plus a mini-fridge stocked with some of our favorite beer, OJ, yogurts, and water instantly take the edge off of a possibly long day of travel.
We have devised a "HERE" and "GONE" hangtag system for your use as you come and go to insure your privacy.
Having lived in Austin for 44 years, we LOVE this beautiful city and all of the incredible restaurants, musicians, nightlife, parks and nature trails, museums, and so much more. We've created a guide (available in the studio) of some of our favorite places and are happy to make additional recommendations so that you have the best experience possible. For more information about Austin; how to get here, what to see and more, check out wikitravel for Austin.
Below are some of Austin's most popular upcoming events.
1. SXSW Film, Music, Interactive and Edu Festival — March 11th-16th, 2024.
2. Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL Festival) in Zilker Park — Two Weekends. October 6th-8th and October 13th-15th, 2023.
3. US Grand Prix F1 Race at the Circuit of the Americas — October 20th-22nd, 2023.
A padded Swedish cot is available for one person who prefers sleeping on a separate mattress. Please let us know before arrival if you would like this amenity set up.
Extra Guest Fee — The rate for a third person is $75/nt. The rate for a third person during the South x Southwest Festival (in March) is $100/nt. Please contact us if you are planning to add a third person, so that we can make the price adjustment (which is called a special offer) before you make your reservation.
Our amenities include:
• Welcome basket with chocolate and an assortment of goodies.
• Enjoy home-baked breakfast bread or muffins with fresh brewed coffee in the morning.
• Mini-fridge stocked with beer, water, yogurt, OJ, and half and half.
• Microwave, dishes, and silverware.
• Leather reclining massage chair.
• Leather reclining rocker chair.
• Very comfortable queen size box-spring mattress (deluxe firm upgrade) with Molecule's Air-Engineered™ mattress topper to experience the comfort and cooling of recovery-focused sleep.
• Luxury towels and high-thread count cotton sheets.
• Private bathroom with stand-up shower with rain shower head and heat-lamp. All-natural soaps, lotion and hair dryer provided.
• Reebok spinner exercise bike.
• Free wireless internet.
• 31-inch Samsung Smart flat screen TV with complimentary Netflix.
• Ceiling fan.
• Washer/dryer/fragrance-free laundry detergent.
• Iron and compact ironing board.
• Full length mirror.
• Beach towels, sunscreen, and natural bug repellent.
• Private key-pad combination locked entrance.
• Special residential parking pass provided for free on-street parking.
• Bus service is one short block away.
• Lots of excellent nearby restaurants.
• Fire extinguisher and smoke/CO detector.
• Non-smoking residence.
And lest we forget, our extended family includes our two intelligent and friendly Australian Shepherds — Sparky (5 years old) and Mica (3 years old) who are always ready to welcome you into our herd and greet you every day with love.
Our calendar is always up to date. Feel free to use Instant Book.
NOTE: Although we love dogs and other pets, we have a no-pet policy and prefer to keep this rental space hypo-allergenic and fur-free for the comfort of future guests who have allergies.
Taxes include the City of Austin Short-Term Rental (STR) Tax and the Texas Hotel Occupancy Tax which will be collected when your reservation is made.
YOUR ENTRANCE: Our guests enter through a shared screened porch and have their own keyless locked entrance to the studio. We welcome our guests to enjoy the backyard garden and any of the outdoor common seating areas.
OUR INTERACTION WITH OUR GUESTS: We live in the front adjoining house and like to greet our guests when possible and offer a five minute tour and answer questions. We may touch base from time to time to make sure our guests are comfortable and having a good experience. We are also available if our guests would like suggestions about things to do and places to see.
One of our sons will oversee the property when we are out of town.
OTHER THINGS TO NOTE: We use all natural cleaning and laundry products. There is an allergy filter in the AC. As much as possible, the apartment has natural or organic fibers, low VOC paint, and products that don't out-gas.
