First of all, thank you for letting us stay at your home. It was extremely clean and welcoming. The pool and hot tub was wonderful and enjoyed by all of us! The neighborhood was safe and in close proximity to Publix. We enjoyed the bicycles and the use of the beach wagon.
From the house description, we did think that the house was closer to the beach than it actually was, it took about 10 to 15 minutes to walk to the beach depending on traffic and how fast we were able to walk. A brisk pace with no red lights could get you there in 10 minutes, otherwise it was 15 minutes .
Outdoors, there was a table and chairs for outdoor dining that was nice, but I have to say that each time anyone of us would go outside to enjoy the pool or patio area, the security system would announce that “you are being recorded”. That quickly became annoying. The house manager said that he would ask the owner to turn that off, in which I think he did for a couple of days, but then it came back on for the duration of the stay.
The pictures on Vrbo also showed the back glass doors as being completely opened like alfresco style, on one of the evenings that was particularly cool, we did that. It was very lovely until the house manager told us that we were not allowed to do that. I had explained that I move the thermostat up to 80° so that the air conditioning would not be coming on and just running, but he asked us to keep the doors closed anyway. At that time I told him that it probably would be best to not show this house advertised with alfresco doors.
I also suggested that for a future guests, the owner might want to put curtains up that we’re not quite so Sheer, not only did we not feel like we had privacy but the sun came streaming through the curtains easily first thing in the morning, waking us early.
I would also suggest that the kitchen be stocked a little bit more fully. We went to make frozen pizzas for lunch one day and we found out that we had no pizza pans to cook the pizzas on or even a pizza cutter. There was also not a strainer for the pasta that we chose to eat one night. For anyone who is planning on cooking some of their meals at the house, the lack of pots, pans, utensils was a bit of a problem. If you do not plan on cooking meals at the house but just doing takeout, the kitchen was completely acceptable with plenty of plates, glassware and mugs.
Overall, we had a really nice time and took advantage of the many restaurants available.