Great:
• Views of Muir Beach; Proximity to Muir Woods; Very clean, Multiple places to hang out; The beds/bedding are very comfortable, warm enough to sleep with sliding door open; hearing waves at night very soothing; Excellent bottle of red wine on our arrival; Internet worked well; hubby enjoyed the outdoor shower; property manager was easy to contact, quick to respond.
Not so great:
• The lounging sofa is not always comfortable, gets hot there when in the direct sun in the afternoon; bedrooms have only double sized beds, just too small and not comfortable for a getaway experience; kitchen does not have: muffin tin, regular size baking pans, mixing bowls, regular size spoons. The liquid soap was watered down, which felt rather cheap. No place to put your stuff! In the bedrooms, there are wide window ledges, but they were filled. There is only one nightstand per bedroom, and dresser only in one bedroom. Downstairs bathroom has no counter. Shower has a window facing the beach without any covering. No blinds on any windows. No sound privacy. The bedrooms share the jack-and-jill bath. One “wall” of each bedroom is a sliding door, with gaps at the top, meaning no sound privacy for the bedrooms. There is a sign by front door saying to not wear your shoes inside. However, there is no bench either inside or outside of the front door, so it is not easy to comply with this, especially when loading/unloading your car, particularly in leaving, as my husband had to go up and down damp steps, and back and forth through the door to load stuff, making it unavoidable to track stuff onto floor.
Other notes: (Things not in owner’s control, but worth knowing)
• If you dislike mountain roads, maybe think twice about this one. The last 20 minutes of the drive to the house is extremely curvy/windy. There are places to hike from the house, but they are STEEP. We hiked down to the little Muir, and then over to the big Muir Beach. Very steep hike back up to house. Muir beach lookout is another place to hike to, but a VERY steep paved road to climb to get there. During the daytime on weekdays, there were various construction sounds, from work being done on homes in the surrounding area, creating unwelcome noise pollution during the day.
We enjoyed the stay, the views, the sound of the waves at night, and the hike through Muir Woods. But as nice as that was, we don’t really see this as a place we would stay again in the future.