We stayed at this house in September 2021; Myself, my husband, my 8 year old son and my mom. We read the reviews ourselves many times, and basically everything we read was true. Its a gorgeous, and very spacious, house. The setting is amazing if you are looking for seclusion. There are some things that I would say are most helpful to know, if you are looking to book this place.
*We had a hard time finding out about cell coverage before we reserved this place. I will tell you that we have AT&T. We did have coverage, most of the time, at the cabin. But we are talking about 1 maybe 2 bars. It was intermittent and definitely not reliable. Since there is no wifi here, you are truly disconnected.
*The house is isolated in a big way. You turn off of a 'highway' and travel about 10 minutes down a gravel road to get to the very end, where this cabin is. Leaving and coming back multiple times in a day is really more trouble than its worth.
*The cabin does have supplies, but I would suggest not relying on those. For example, there was no laundry soap for us so we had to use our own. That's not an issue, as long as you prepare for it. So I would bring dish soap, laundry soap, all your normal supplies.
*The water here off the dock/shoreline is really lovely, but very rocky. I would highly recommend water shoes as that then made it possible to travel quite far off the shore. Its shallow so you can walk a long way!
*Bring food, make your own meals, there are very few food places anywhere within a reasonable distance and none of those are safe if you are very COVID cautious like we are.
*We had no issues with the home being dirty. All I would say here is that we stayed near the end of the summer season and the kitchen was weirdly stocked with everything other renters had left over the summer. So if you would enjoy fairly full cabinets with leftover items from other people, this is a great plus! For us, we wanted cabinet space to put away the stuff we brought but every cabinet was full so it all just sat out on the counter for a week.
*The freezer will leak on you. Seems like they turn it off or very low between customers which means we had water on the floor several times. We eventually just put a towel down and kept it there the whole stay.
*The front door keypad has an odd feature I thought I would mention. Once you enter the code to lock it, if you try to pull the door (to check the lock) the keypad screams at you. It is STARTLING!