Our Mission is to make your vacation rental experience simply marvelous.
Our cottage is tucked behind a 6 foot privacy fence. You will feel safe and secluded in our very comfortable 790 square foot home. While we are secluded, we are at the same time right in the middle of UpTown. A 3 minute walk to Spinster Abbotts and Sundays, grab at bite or have an adult beverage at the tap room at Spinsters. Many choices! There is ice cream and cupcakes right around the corner. The Raintree Restaurant is 2 blocks away. Awesome Weekend Brunch. Our street is one of the iconic Coquina Alleyways that St Augustine is famous for, just a wonderful olde town touch. It can appear to be dark but we have a motion light/camera to enhance your night sight.
We cannot accommodate more than 4 in our small cozy home. All sizes children count as a whole person. It is a small cottage (2bed/1bath) and we would not want you to feel crowded. * sneaking an extra can cause an up charge.
For those of you who like things Clean, we have you covered. We have an awesome house keeper who gets the full cleaning fee. I come in after and enhance. It is super important to me that your are really comfortable. We like to come down and stay here and I want to be Super Comfortable and be confident where I am staying is clean, really clean. This is your vacation and you should be relaxing not cleaning to feel comfortable. Stay Relax, we will do the laundry.
Work Space: if you need anything to WORK let us know. We are able to provide an extra monitor, possibly a printer ( I do not supply ink, we talk), the vanity table can work as a desk, it did for me for years with a laptop. We can provide another kitchen table, if you need more real estate. The kitchen chairs are MCM school chairs, very comfy. The Internet wiring is Cat6. We have every cable know to man. This must be planned in advance 'cos John will bring you the wrong cables if D isn't home. Only D knows where this stuff is and how to hook up.
Queen Bedroom
Full length Mirror and Vintage Make up Vanity with Boudoir chair.
The Queen Bedroom has a 43 inch tv with Amazon fire stick, YouTubeTV, and a Samsung sound bar. The bed is a pillow top mattress with 6 comfortable pillows, and an extra blanket. The room has Black out curtains with horizontal blinds underneath, this makes The Queen Bedroom especially cozy and quiet. One bed lamp has a USB plug, both sides have amble plugs. There are plenty of drawers, hangers, a luggage rack, and an iron and ironing board.
Hand dial adjustable Hanging ceiling fan to move air.
King Bedroom 2:
The King Bedroom is decorated in a vintage boho Florida vibe with a 80's Wicker Lane bedroom set. This My favorite bed, you melt! The king bed has 4 king pillows and 2 standard back up pillows and an extra blanket. Both bedroom lights offer dim lighting and have USB ports and standard plugs. There is a reading light over the bed.
Black out curtains over blinds added to your sleeping comfort. Hand dial adjustable Hanging ceiling fan to move air. Luggage Rack.
Bathroom:
The bathroom has a stall shower with a NICE and POWERFUL shower head. The shower spray is not height challenged friendly. I am 5'6" I can get it out of the holder, my daughter is 4'11" this is not happening for her without help.
The bathroom has awesome lighting and a fabulous mirror, which makes life so much easier. Now two Make Up stations!
There is also a lighted Magnification Make Up Mirror for those finer touch ups.
4 sets of towels are provided. We provide the things you might expect or forget including hair dryer, shampoo, conditioner and body lotion. This is all stuff we use when we come to stay. Try the body lotion it might surprise you. There are also some useful miscellaneous emergency amenities on hand.
Living Room:
A comfortable living room with two red leather sofas and a 55" Samsung Smart TV with a Samsung sound bar and woofer. For your viewing pleasure the quintessential and always essential Black Out Curtains keep the LIGHT, heat and cold out. Over these curtains are fancy black out curtains to add some colour!
There is also a Bose Wave CD Sound System with an 2 of the standard AUX cables. It is an oldie but it works.
There is amble light to read and see in this room. There are a few games, cards and Dominos .
Hand dial adjustable Hanging ceiling fan to move air.
Kitchen:
Casa Tranquil has a fully functional kitchen. Our retro kitchen was remodeled 5- 6 years ago. There is a 20" Amana 4 burner range, dishwasher, and a full size refrigerator. The kitchen has a dinette table with 4 vintage MCM chairs.
There is a 4 slot toaster, microwave, Krup 12 cup coffee Maker. There is also pour over coffee, blender, crock pot, All-Clad cookware, mics utensils, SHARP Henckels knives, baking sheets, a casserole dish, and plastic pitcher. The kitchen is fully functioning
There are also Big Girl Wine Glasses with stems and outdoor plastic glasses.
We provide coffee filters, loose coffee, tea, creamers, sugars, salt, pepper, and miscellaneous condiments. Parchment paper, plastic baggies, etc.
Snacks! We make sure there are welcome snacks.
We provide 2-3 gallons of filtered water from our home, this is as a courtesy and to a make a fine cup of coffee. If it wigs you out, don't use them. I keep my eyes on these. I wash them and change them out. I use this water when I visit.
Laundry Room:
This is the ROOM OF WONDER!
There is a old top loader washer and dryer, with a few laundry pods. Please let us do the House laundry when you leave . You are on vacation. If you decide to do a load please DO NOT wash sheets and towels together.
All condiments are on wire rack to your right in Laundry room. I look through these to make sure nothing is icky.
There are clearly marked bins with supplies to anticipate your needs and emergencies.I have really tried to anticipate most emergencies. I am a Grandmom been there!
We provide beach towels and rain umbrellas. Beach Chairs etc available upon request, just let us know they are in the shed. There is a clothes line for wet suits and towels.
Outside:
The Front yard is awesome! Lots of lights and room. We get the afternoon sun. Outside there are Umbrellas. It is simply marvelous to sit on the front patio and watch the Flamboyance of our plastic Flamingos. The Flamboyance grows every year , we have added 4 zombies, and two blues to our colony this past year. But the Sun can be brutal so we have added Umbrellas.
We have fabulous vintage iron patio furniture which is restored. They are not child friendly, sometimesNOT FANCY clothing friendly. They are vintage old restored. There are no cushions because cushions host buggies.
The front yard is mostly an impervious surface, This area is not disability friendly, some of the pavers are uneven. There is a vintage concrete patio table with an umbrella. It is concrete, it is very hard 'cos it is concrete.
Parking:
We have private parking for 2 vehicles. Please absolutely NO parking inside the privacy fence. Or in Front of the fence
Families:
We will try our best to accommodate babies and toddlers. We love babies but Our home is NOT baby proof, we are children friendly and will do all we can to make your vacay comfortable with your children. In being family friendly We have tried to anticipate what you might need when traveling with children. Our plates are melamine, we also have a selection of paper plates. One set of toddler cutlery. We provide splash pads and a mega pad.
Upon witnessing personally what small babies and new Moms can do to Casa Tranquil in a matter of two days we must have a policy toward children. A child no matter how small, is a person and counts towards the 4 person max.
NOISE:
There is music during the afternoon and into the evenings from Borrillo's Pizzeria. Borrillo's Pizzeria is very close to Casa Tranquil during the afternoon and evenings there is live music until 9:30 and 10pm on Fridays and Saturdays which you can hear from our front yard. This adds a lovely vacation touch to our festive front yard and your vacation memories. The city has a strict noise ordinances so the music stops fairly early and is not crazy loud. Borrillo's is a small family restaurant with great pizza and a small outdoor entertainment area.
Internet:
Casa Tranquil is the perfect place for the business traveler, we can provide most cables if you have forgotten something. Extra power strips are provided. No plug hunting! Super fast internet. Ethernet line is available upon request, hook up is behind TV Cat6.
Great place to get that project done, while being able to eat a variety of fabulous restaurants, within easy walking distance after a long day.
Super fast Ethernet. Wireless is super fast . Cat6
Pets:
We have decided no pets. Keeps the place nicer and my standard of clean is obtainable without stress.
ADA:
Our door openings do not accommodate wheelchairs or large strollers. Our bathroom does not have a handicapped grip bar. We are not handicap accessible.
Safety:
We have a doorbell Camera and a Camera with security lighting facing First Street, this is for everyone’s security and so you can see what you’re doing at night. If this is a problem let us know.
We are all electric NO GAS home, so we do not have a CO detector.
We do provide a Fire Blanket in kitchen By stove
Fire Extinguishers
If all this sounds awesome to you We look forward to having you and your family and friends as our Guests.
