The unit was well maintained, a few initial issues with the upstairs being too hot, but we were able to figure that out. The dishwasher is also not very effective and we did find several dirty dishes in the cabinet. The upstairs bathroom also had a VERY loud toilet flush, which woke up our small children whenever someone forgot and flushed in the middle of the night. Just a heads up, I’m sure maintaining appliances is challenging without an owner or management group able to lay eyes on it. We did not contact the owners regarding these issues because we felt there wasn’t anything they could do and we were able to work around them. And we recognize not everyone is traveling with younger kids. All communication with the owner was responded to very quickly!
Not an issue with the unit, this is just in case anyone with younger kids has more questions about this particular plan: we rode bikes to the beach, but we hadn’t stayed in palmetto dunes in quite a while and didn’t realize how busy it would be. Would not do that again with our children (5 & 7 year olds had trouble managing the busy bike paths and intersections). It was a 5 minute bike ride to the beach with 2 road crossings, one was very busy. You are also not allowed to leave your bikes near the unit and need to park them in the bike racks. The racks are a few units down from this unit, which isn’t a huge deal, but again with younger children just provided more of a challenge than expected based on other HH experiences. The pools are not very well maintained, but the one nearest the unit is very close. So, just depends on your expectations. We did not end up using them as much as we’d planned.
The supplies provided (toilet paper, paper towels, dishwasher detergent etc) were more of a starter pack and we needed to buy our own by the 3rd day. This would have been fine, except based on the listing’s encouragement of how well stocked the unit was, we did not plan on providing these. Would also recommend bringing your own hand soap for the bathrooms as the small bars provided were challenging.
There were a lot of options for cooking (casserole dishes, crock pot, measuring cups etc) which was very nice. We did end up using some of the beach chairs which was a nice help! I also appreciated there was plenty of open cabinet space for the food and supplies we brought.