I’d been waiting to vacation on Dauphin Island for nearly a decade and I’m so thrilled I finally got the opportunity! My husband and our 4 sons (16, 14, 13, 12) stayed Aug 7-15 2021 and enjoyed every minute.
The house was even larger and nicer than I’d imagined. The kitchen was very well stocked from small appliances (blender, pressure cooker, air fryer oven, toaster etc) to seasonings and tons of dishes. Plenty of linens for household use. Plenty of seating in the living room and kitchen.
The kitchen appliances are large household sized so plenty of room to store groceries and cook meals and wash/dry laundry.
Several vacuums and broom to keep the places clean as the sand there is “sticky” and tracks everywhere even after using the outside shower.
We were very comfortable!!!
I would say, plan to cook. The food on the island is very expensive. A simple meal of two burgers, two chicken strips, and two shrimp was no less than $100 for the six of us.
We found that leaving the island and going to Greers Grocery store was a much better choice than trying to buy over priced groceries on the island. Though the gas station on the island had the best gas prices locally so fill up before you leave!
A few things mgmt needs to address if they haven’t already: the grill needs to be replaced. I was counting on grilling out and was very disappointed we couldn’t. Tiny ants were in the master bathroom in the toilet area. The wine cooler was broken (not cooling but heated up and then error code). The doors are difficult to lock and unlock. For the amount that is charged to cleaning, I feel a much deeper clean should be completed for those nooks and crannies that we tend to overlook (ie. Dusting the top of the wall of the shower was thick with dust. Strands of hair in the bathroom drawer, corners of floor/baseboards)
Kitchen should be labeled so guests can put dishes away neatly and locate what they need.
The rusty broken handle at the outside shower needs to be replaced. It’s not safe!!! And the hose connection upstairs spays water all over the deck/house.
NONE of the above took anything away from our relaxing time there.
