While the house was nice enough and the pool and property were pretty, overall the house was not a good fit for my family. First off, part of the reason we rented this house was because it advertised that it had a hot tub. For both my children and my brother’s children, a hot tub was a very important part of the enjoyment of our previous Hampton summer vacations , as they enjoyed hanging out in the evening and relaxing after pool time as did the rest of the family. I ended up finding out the day before we were about to leave that the hot tub was only available for certain months of the year and not others, that it wasn’t due to be used again until October. Well that was in no way made clear on VRBO. Needless to say, we were quite upset.
To her credit, Jackie did work hard to correct this problem. With prompting and some help on my familie’s behalf, she was able to have her pool person come and get the hot tub up and running by the 4th day of our trip and we greatly appreciated that. We made very good use of the hot tub for the days it was up and running for us.
We really enjoyed the pool and the house was comfortable enough, though too small for our group and would not recommend it for groups larger than 6 people, which we were.
The house had nice privacy from the road and the master bed was very comfortable. The bed in the office was quite small but my teenage daughter managed well enough on it.
The house was not equipped with enough cups, silverware, or bowls. Additionally, the stove, which is an induction stove, was very difficult for our family to use as it was a bit of a challenge to figure out how it worked, and when it did work, it was temperamental. My niece tried to cook eggs on it and we tried several times to get it to work for her and after 15 minutes, we gave up. Now it could be that other people who are more familiar with induction stove tops would have found this much easier than we did. But again, it just made the act of cooking pretty frustrating and that is not what you want on a family vacation.
I did appreciate Jackie’s helpfulness and overall our family had a good time. Just would not come back to this house.