Oh, did we not mention the bees! Nothing against bees, but when the property manager doesn’t tell you ahead of time about the seasonal bee invasion that renders the pool area useless we felt like we’d been scammed.
Disappointing to say the least. We planned for a fun spring break vacation with our kids and picked this property specifically for the pool. When it’s north of 90 degrees everyday, water is an outdoor necessity. Unfortunately after spending just a few minutes hanging by pool the bees would start buzzing around. A few at first, then minutes later they’d be buzzing around in mass. Our kids felt terrorized and eventfully just refused to go near the pool. As potential solution, one property manager suggested that we turn the bee nuisance it into a learning opportunity for our children on how to not be afraid of bees. It wasn’t just too much for our kids, we also found ourselves constantly swatting away the bees, and ultimately no more pool time after the first day. Don’t get me started on the bee stings.
Property management did drop off a spray bottle for us to spritz the plants with bee repellant and at another point added some salt to the pool. Neither remedy had any effect on the bee activity. Our issue isn’t with nature, it’s with management company. They are quite aware of the bee population in the area and have history managing this property and others in the area. Bummer that they chose not to make us aware of the this issue prior to booking.
The house was nice and so was the view, but since we couldn’t use the pool we found ourselves scrambling to make alternative plans for our kids and taking on the additional costs and time.
We were also warned by one of the partners of the management company that if we planned on writing a bad review that there would be repercussions across the Internet for myself and my wife. Not really sure what that means, but i guess it’ll be a learning opportunity for us. In the end, Drew, the co owner of Revana Reality, finally agreed to partially refund our payment. Unfortunately, the check never arrived and he hasn’t returned our phone call.
FYI: this is the 10th VRBO experience and first review.