2/5 Poor
Scott F.
May 6, 2021
Bitter Sweet
The location is great, the unit sits on the coast and has an excellent view of the ocean. The place was also impeccably clean and well equipped. (E.g. fire sticks with Netflix on all Tv's.). Unfortunately however, there were two issues that arose and put a damper on the vacation.
Issue 1
On booking the place we were contacted by the owner and advised some external cameras would be installed to provide additional security for the unit. We were advised none of the cameras would be pointing at any areas that would affect our privacy and only face the external surroundings of the unit. We agreed with the owner for the cameras to be turned on based on their placement of monitoring the surroundings of the unit.
However, when we checked in we noticed one camera pointing directly at the front porch area where we spent the majority of our time and one over looking the pool area. These cameras felt quite invasive and uncomfortable while their placement contradicted what was told to us by the owner.
Issue 2
On our second to last day of vacation we were contacted by the owner and advised we owed an additional $250us as she noticed we had three small kids with us and she does not allow children at the place. On booking the unit, nowhere on the house description/details did it stipulate no children allowed (Note: this has since been updated). If we knew that children were not allowed we would never have booked this unit.The kids with us were five, three and three. All my years of renting vacation homes I have never been asked to pay more for kids 5 years and under, especially as we had no forewarning or notice of this. We found this situation quite upsetting.
The unit itself and the location is great but these issues definitely affected us fully enjoying our vacation.
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