The many sleeping capacity and backyard pool/spa were the selling points for us. We ran across several issues during our stay. The swimming pool was not pristine clean as it shows in the photos. We notified the owner at 8am after our first night and she sent her pool crew. We could not swim until 4pm that day on a 100+ day. The owner told us we needed to text her if we wanted the pool lights or spa turned on. When we asked for the spa to be turned on, we were told its hot outside and it’s a safety concern. The home is advertised with a pool and spa, and we wanted to use the spa. Nevertheless, she stated the jets and spa were turned on and heating, but they never came on. The next day, she sent her pool, in which he cleaned the filthy filters (the pool never was clear enough to see the bottom). He left and we assumed everything was working. That evening, we asked for the spa and jets to be turned on, but they never turned on. These issues should’ve been fixed before our stay. We booked three months before our trip and not being able to use the pool for almost an entire day and not being able to use the spa and jets was upsetting. The owner did send her pool crew but kept making excuses and let us know she’s paying extra to having them come on a holiday weekend…. which is NOT our problem. She offered to extend our checkout to 8pm, but we all booked early departure times and were gone by 10am day of checkout.
Other items: 1st night two smoke detectors kept beeping due to low battery. It was so annoying. She was able to walk us through on how to lower the sound on her security panel.
Not mentioned in the description is the security cameras on the property. It was awkward to have backyard and side yard cameras watching us while swimming/sunbathing. We would see it illuminate often so we know the owner was watching us. It was a total invasion of privacy and had we known the owner was going to be looking in on us all weekend and the pool/spa had issues, we would’ve booked elsewhere.
Also, the downstairs bedroom with the bunkbeds gets VERY hot. The AC ducts must be clogged because that room never cooled off and we had to leave the door open in order to get some cool air in it (but with 4 people sleeping in it, it was miserable). There was no fan to help provide some comfort.
Neighborhood is nice. One neighbor had a LOUD party until 3am one night and during our entire trip, while in the backyard we can smell the neighbors smoking marijuana.