This house is in a beautiful spot on the river, close to the beach and restaurants. Great house with potential, but when we arrived the house was filthy. Dirty floors, dirty kitchen and bathrooms. We had to go out and buy cleaning supplies and clean everything. Believe me, when i say filthy it is not an exaggeration. We were told the morning of arrival that one of the bathrooms needed painting but, if we didn't mind unpainted walls, we could check in early. We were fine with that. However, it was more then unpainted walls. The trim boards at the ceiling and floor were hanging from the walls and the toilet wasn't secured to the floor. The bathroom was actually under construction which should have been communicated to us. The first night, the wall air conditioner in one of the bedrooms broke and soaked part of the bed and created a puddle of water on the floor. The owner did handle this promptly and had someone come over on Thanksgiving to fix it. We left the house while they were doing the repair and came back to find that the lady with the repairman had been wandering the house, emptying trash and folding laundry we had in the dryer. Creepy and unacceptable. She put herself out there as a sort of "manager" of the property. Even if that were the case, she should never have done anything inside the house.
She was not asked to come over and do housekeeping. They were there for approx 6 to 7 hours causing my husband and I to have no access to our bedroom or bathroom. The owner graciously offered a form of compensation for the issues we experienced which was appreciated, however, in our opinion, not sufficient. While the air breaking was unforeseeable, there was no absolutely no excuse for the dirty house. After our trip, I sent the owner an email outlining our experience and I was ignored. Communication in the beginning was slow as it would take him days to respond to messages sent prior to our trip. Bottom line,
the owner clearly was not prepared to accept guests into the house. They are charging a lot of money for this rental and it was not fit for guests. No matter what the cost though, a clean house is a must and very easily achievable. I guarantee you it would have been unacceptable to anyone.