Our family of six adults came to spend a couple of days at the beach and overall we enjoyed our stay. Here are the positives we experienced: THE VIEW: the view is incredible. The way the house is situated, the view of the ocean is beautiful. The deck faces the ocean, and provides a relaxing spot to drink coffee in the morning.
THE KITCHEN: We cook a lot and found the kitchen to be fairly stocked with basic amenities for cookware essentials.
It was also nice to have the starter pack of dish detergent, laundry soap and a sponge.
THE ICE MACHINE: There is a separate ice machine that was fabulous. It kept up with our demand for coolers as well as ice for meal time.
THE SPACE: The house was spacious and allowed our family to stay comfortably. Also, the house being pet friendly was a huge bonus.
Now for the negatives:
PRIVATE "BEACH": It is advertised as "private beach". However, the only beach we saw that was "private" was across the driveway next to a parking lot by a restaurant. And it wasn't beach, but a bunch of sand.with scraggly weeds in it. The description does say that there isn't direct beach access ,but it was not clear that in order to go to the beach and be close to the ocean, we would have to drive either 1/2 mile one way to the state park or a couple of miles at the other public beach access. It would have been nice to have a more clear direction there. We walked from the house to one of the beach access points and it took about 10-12 one way, and that was without carrying any type of chair or beach equipment. The advertisement was misleading.
OVERALL LAYOUT DESCRIPTION: The house is 2 story with outside access only. There is a description online with a 360 tour of the top floor with pictures of the additional downstairs, but it was not made clear that there was no internal access. That was inconvenient during the rain.
NEED FOR REPAIR: The deck, although a great spot to watch the oceanview, was showing signs of age with several weak spots in the stairs themselves. Additionally, there was a spot on the deck that actually had a rotted hole in the corner, and someone had pulled the deck furniture over it to keep someone from falling in.
TV SERVICE/WIFI: Although we did not come to the beach to watch TV, we wanted to be aware of the weather. Althought there were TVs in each room, It was difficult to get the TVs to stay connected to the wifi, and then we weren't sure, if the TVs operated on only wifi or satellite (there were remotes and boxes, but they weren't connected, and there was little instruction). Wifi seemed to be at a good speed, so we didn't have issues with our phone connections.
We as a family overall enjoyed the view and the space. The descriptions were misleading and thus inconvenient.