Pictures and Description can be decieving.
Review Submitted: July 30, 2009
Date of Stay: July 2009
Our group consisted of 15 people (9 adults / 6 kids).
The house is beautiful, but remember beauty is only skin deep. The neighborhood is less to be desired. Pictures do not show that the house is right on a fairly busy road out front or that another house ia about 10 yards away out the back. From reading the descriptions I was under the impression that it was a fairly large beautifully landscaped plot of land - the impression of privacy.
It is stated that beach is 100 yards away, more like 300 yards - line of sight is more than 100 yards. The beach/sand is nice, but at the waters edge it is 99% reef (4 to 5 feet wide) then drops to 4 to 5 feet of water - not at all kid friendly. No body surfing and definately no kids playing in the waves. Bring your aqua shoes.
Amenities stated were lacking - no hair dryer, safe, telephone, alarm clock, iron, ironing board, blender, no decent assortment of pots and pans, spices consisted of salt and pepper. The grill was an accident waiting to happen - burner tubes rigged with aluminum foil - owner told me it was perfectly functional and that he had just used it prior to our arrival. No outlets in either of the full baths on the 3rd level, but outlets in the 1/2 baths on 2nd and 3rd level. Strange 3rd level layout where 5 of the 6 bedrooms are you have to walk through the bunk room to get to two of the bedrooms. We were given 1 key for the deadbolts on the doors - 7 plus doors, no keys for the door knob locks - some of which were very loose, 1 key for the lock on the front security gate and there was no lock for the lower security gate. We had to replace about a half dozen lightbulbs on the second level to brighten the place up.
There are no restaurants close enough to walk to and you wouldn't want to risk your life walking down the road to the one that is about a mile away - especially not with kids in tow. The beach there has a break in the reef about 30 feet wide. The only place the kids could play in the waves.
I would not reccommend Rincon as a vacation spot and not this property either.
Owner's Response: In response to "not a redskins fan" I, of course, want to apologize for any inconvenience they may have suffered. However, the neighborhood is one of the most exclusive and affluent areas of Rincon. The "busy road" is the road to town and the beaches and the famous Route 413. There is plenty of privacy and the beach is a two minute walk from the house. If the beach closest to the house was not acceptable, there are three other beaches that are very kid friendly and are within a two minute drive from the house. None of our previous guests have ever complained about a lack of activities for children. Children need to be supervised no matter where they are especially, since this is not a resort with lots of personnel, parents need to provide supervision to prevent children from getting lost.
The house comes with the basic pots and pans and amenities, condiments and spices are purely personal items and should be brought along with other personal items. The barbeque was replaced while the guests were in the house, and we are sorry for any inconvenience it caused.
The amenities above that are lacking were all there, the outlets were installed according to code and we had nothing to do with their placement. One call to our property manager would have solved the problem of the missing hair dryers, etc., they would have been replaced as soon as possible. We pride ourselves on keeping our guests comfortable. As for the keys, this has been our policy since in the past we have had guests loose extra keys and then we had to charge them for replacing the locks and we were not comfortable causing our guests to spend money needlessly. Our guests get an extra key which they can hide if they misplace their key, also, our house manager is always available to for any problems that may arise.
It is unfortunate that "not a redskins fan" was not satisfied with the accommodations, but we have many guests who come back every year for vacation and a few multiple times during the year.
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