We loved our stay here. The house is decorated so well. Everything was perfectly beachy. The porch is so enjoyable there are many nights when our entire family of three was on the porch swing just talking. We would hear people walk by and say I love tutti-frutti. It’s so cute. I could honestly live in a house just like that if I ever chose to live somewhere near a beach. This house is truly a five minute walk to the beach access, which is mostly a public beach. You have to walk through a couple of private areas on the beach to get to the public spot. if you were wanting chairs set up by a vendor, you can’t do it on this public beach. However, I learned the first day may be since it was spring break, and a little cooler that if you ask the vendor that is set up on the private beach if he has any chairs available for the public beach, he might be able to do it for you. It’s a day-to-day thing that you have to ask about, however, my daughter and I found that our towels was fine as long as she could get a spot that you liked. It was no different than having the chairs. we love that you could just pack a beach bag with what you needed for lunch or snacks and some drinks and whatever else you needed for comfort comfort on the beach and just walk down the road and be there in five minutes. very different from our other beach trips where we had to lug a cooler and chairs, etc. There is a washer and dryer at this house, which was really nice and I would say all in all this is one of the nicest rentals we’ve ever stayed at. I have also seen messages saying that the rental company is not responsive but they were for us. They helped us with anything that we needed.
There are a few things we wish we had known first. One, there is construction going on next-door on a few houses nearby. This caused constant noise during the day when we were trying to relax but we were able to get over it because it was just so nice to be at this house. Probably most people would be at the beach are out and about. We just wanted to lounge around for a little bit in the morning to afternoon hours. We were there during spring break, which was a little cooler so we weren’t at the beach all day. However, we were never really comfortable using the pool or being out in the backyard because there were construction workers directly over it, they never bothered us or said anything but it just seemed weird to be in a pool with people just right over you. I don’t think this is unique to this location. However, I think in this area of 30A construction is everywhere so I’m not sure how you would avoid it. Two, I wish I had checked what was already available in the house before going to Publix and buying a bunch of stuff even though the listing says to bring XYZ this rental had some more of different things available so we wasted a little money there but that’s OK. That’s on us. Third, this will sound really weird probably, some thing about the bedding in the main bedroom doesn’t breathe at all. My husband and I both would wake up super hot and I think it might have something to do with whatever’s covering the mattress or the type of sheets but if you’re there and the heat of the summer I would imagine you might get hot. Likely won’t be able to get very cold. We were there during a cooler time of year again, so we left the windows open and it was really nice. But even with that we still woke up very very hot every day. We sleep with comforters at home and don’t have a problem. Finally and this is minor, but my daughter chose to sleep in the bunk room and there was sand in her sheets not just like a teeny bit but enough for her to be uncomfortable.