My husband and I stayed at the end of March for the last few days of spring break with our three children under 6 at the Bid-a-wee bungalow. The house is perfect. It’s well decorated and updated, it’s well laid out, there are great books to read and DVDs for kids and adults to watch. Kitchen is labeled and well stocked. Tons of pool and beach toys, floats, even a wagon to take to the beach (HUGE bonus there!) And The kids’ bunk room was so fun for our three. The house had plenty of space for our family if 5 (or more!) and there were some pretty serious sirens that would alert you if the back doors to the pool were open without pushing a silencer that is at adult level (annoying maybe, but we felt VERY safe there, as one of ours doesn’t know how to swim). The house itself is lovely.
The backyard is beautiful. The firepit, sitting area under a pergola, and eating table area were all so nice…that and the pool are what drew us to rent the property! We wanted to be able to go to the beach some, but with our kids ages and the cold ocean water in March, we knew we’d spend most the time in the pool and playing outside. Unfortunately, the pool was totally green when we arrived and despite the efforts of the pool company, the pool remained green throughout our stay and was unusable. While we were refunded the heating fee, we were greatly disappointed not to be able to “get wet” the entire trip as we had planned and I feel like the pool or rental management could have checked in more on that rather than us constantly calling to report the pool still being green, and we didn’t quite feel like that compensation accounted for our “actual loss” during our stay.
Despite our disappointment with the pool situation, we would definitely still consider renting here again due to the charm of the house, yard, *potential* for pool, and location to the beach.
