Bottom line, we’ll rent another condo for our next visit.
The decent: Comfortable beds, updated kitchen, plenty of dishes and pots and pans, a vacuum and dustpan to help clean up the sand, and spacious. Also a lovely view and a great location, with exceptionally easy access to the beach. The large dining table was great. Parking was easy and plentiful, even during our summer stay. Elevators were quick. The unit had a nice table and chairs on the balcony.
The dismal: A huge inattention to detail on cleaning and general upkeep, including 1) the balcony was littered with goldfish crackers, which of course our 19 month old tried to eat, 2) some sort of weird dripping stain down the side of the kitchen island, 3) hair all over the bath mat, 4) toiletries in the shower from the prior guests (including a bar of soap), 5) a majorly ripped screen door to the balcony, 6) damaged fridge shelves, making it impossible to store anything on the doors (one railing in the fridge door was broken, the other one was missing); 7) broken shutters that wouldn’t close on the outer window which let in too much light to the adjoining bedroom in the mornings; 8) no room darkening curtains in the living room - only broken venetian blinds - making it impossible for anyone to sleep on the sleeper sofa in the living room, since that room faces east. No room darkening curtains in the bedroom either; 9) barely functioning bathroom light switches. 10) the ugly bathtub where it’s clear that old non-skid adhesive was torn off and damaged the tub, plus a mildewy shower curtain liner. 11) A very problematic internet connection. My husband was to telework the last two days of our stay, but couldn’t because the internet connection kept going out. We reported it, and they said that it’s a known issue for the entire building. Sure enough, family in two other units in the same building also had lost their connections. 12) The lounge chairs on the balcony were flimsy and uncomfortable.
The dangerous: 1) Multiple fraying cords on lamps. 2) Electrical outlets were so loose we couldn’t even use most of them (except for the updated ones in the kitchen). This included not being able to plug in our baby monitor, because the cord just fell right out of the outlet. They were also so loose that even outlet covers (which we pack for babyproofing) were too loose to stay in. 3) The balcony railing is questionable. There is definitely too large of a gap on the bottom, and it made us extremely nervous with a toddler. We visited family renting another unit, and that unit had been retrofitted with a type of small track under the railing to install exterior shutter doors. That had the benefit of decreasing the size of the gap 4) The window to the front sunroom thing would not lock, and it’s easy to open it from the corridor. This, combined with the fact that the shutters wouldn’t close (mentioned above), made it basically impossible to want to store anything in the front sunroom.