The entire stay was affected by the fact that the elevator to the THIRD FLOOR did not work. Even though the place was nice, location was fine, parking was good, etc., that's what I expected, which is why I rented the place for week.
The elevator did not break. It worked the first day. I talked to the guys working on it, who told me that it was a scheduled repair, not an emergency one. I'd specifically asked the agent at Avocet if there was a working elevator and was told yes. I wasn't told of any planned repairs beginning the second day of my week-long stay. They should have taken care to let me know what was what with that. It can't be that they didn't know. They manage the building.
I had elderly family and friends who either weren't able to visit, or visited once and could not come back. There were other family members who had physical difficulty managing the 72 stairs up to the 3rd floor- including myself- particularly coming up from the beach or from food shopping...
I've never written a review before. But this was a very bad thing that really affected us. We were there for a wedding, and invited many people to stay at Folly Beach and visit with us, the parents of the groom. It really put a huge damper on things, and presented a physical hardship to a number of people. It turned a nice place into a nice place in a BAD
BUILDING
As t was a scheduled maintenance, not a response to a breakdown, we should have been told of that and offered a second floor or an alternative property. Far as I'm concerned, Avocet owes me for really damaging my son's wedding time for us in terms of how much family I was unable to have up to the place, and how difficult others found it to climb all those stairs. I'll return to Folly but find a different agency to trust with the arrangements, and suggest to others they do the same.- G. Greene