6/10 Okay
Andrew c.
26 Sept 2021
Liked: Check-in, communication, location
Great view, good location, bad price
As an event hosting space 4/5
The home is absolutely gorgeous with a beautiful yard backing onto the water. Huge patio and the inside is a great size too. Two easily accessible bathrooms for guests and a humongous kitchen and refrigerator for food storage. Actual cooking tools were a little lacking but storage space was no problem at all. Great fire pit too! The only problems that occurred were that the patio lights and outdoor plugs just didn't work. Carla sent out someone to take a look but were unable to fix it so we had to jury rig a solution of a long extension cord leading outside. The other issue we ran into was the sheer amount of both mosquitos and geese. We had to go through the whole lawn and spray mosquito oil and pick up goose poop for a couple hours before our event. For the amount that is charged extra for event hosting the lawn should have been sprayed and cleaned before hand, especially since outdoor events are the norm in current times. There was also construction going on, which was fine no problem with that, but there was a very sharp drop off that we had to buy solar lights for to make sure it was safe for cars and taxis, but this was a minor thing.
Value 2/5
Honestly if not for this last point I'd have let this whole review slide. We did have a fun time. But considering that people abandoned beds to sleep on couches during out whole stay, we had to do a bunch of cleaning, had to spray for mosquitos ourselves and were told the day before and harassed the day of our event for additional money because of the specific kind of event we were having this is a 2/5. Carla did state that weddings and events had additional fees associated with them, and we were happy to pay additional event fees. When she learned that our specific event was a wedding she let us know that we owed her an additional 2.3K on top of what we'd already agreed to pay and made out seem like she would have taken further action if we didn't agree to. We were not told that weddings cost more than other events, and had we known we likely would have booked somewhere else. The number of people attending didn't change, nor did anything else other than her knowing we were having a small wedding ceremony. It added a lot of stress onto what was already a stressful day and made an already expensive stay obscenely overpriced. At the end of the day, this house is absolutely Instagram worthy and stunning, just don't look too closely to anything
Andrew c.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2021
