8/10 Good
Shena W.
12 Apr 2024
Liked: Cleanliness
Nice place, but very old
This is a nice home but old and rundown on the outside. The listing doesn’t show any photos of the front of the house so, after a 6hr drive, we weren’t even sure we were at the right house - there is no address on it. The code for the keypad didn’t work so it took us a half hour to get inside. The listing mentions that there are stairs (it’s a 2-story home) but it does not mention how steep it is walking from where you have to park to where you enter the house. I have a bad knee and this posed a problem for me; stairs are fine, but a steep and muddy incline is not and we would not have chosen this property if they had mentioned this in the listing. The inside was nice and looked mostly like the photos. The stuff in the kitchen was mostly clean, but the utensil drawers were crumby and some of the utensils and dishes were not very clean. Everything else was surprisingly clean though and the furnishings were comfortable except for the king bed in the room with the view - it sucks. It has a queen size pillow topper on a king mattress and was not comfortable. The other king bed was a super firm and noisy mattress that also had bedding that was too small. The owners really need to spring for a functioning set of curtains for both sliding doors upstairs. They kept falling off the clips that held them in place and were on the jankiest curtain rods I’ve ever seen; they literally looked like they were seconds away from falling down. There is also a lamp upstairs in the family room that is a fire hazard - the wiring and lightbulb are super loose so we unplugged it. As for the outside, the Adirondack chairs were missing, but we were surprised to find fishing poles, although only one of them actually worked. The dock is larger in person than it appears in the photos, and we used the fire pit one night but couldn’t find roasting sticks anywhere. The town is nice and there’s an excellent beach with a really amazing playground near the marina, so we went there and flew a kite and walked on the world’s largest floating boardwalk. We literally had the beach to ourselves because it was the off season, so it was peaceful. Overall, we had a nice stay, but there are definitely things they could do to make the home better.
Shena W.
Stayed 7 nights in Apr 2023