Easter vacation
Review Submitted: April 20, 2009
Date of Stay: April 2009
Pros:
Amazing view from master bedroom and dining room.
Open floor plan.
Nice private pool
Caretakers were wonderful people.
Place was clean and well maintained.
Price of the rental was reasonable.
Cons:
First night we arrived there were flying ants everywhere until we got the caretaker to spay.
Every day we lost the water in the house for several hours.
Even with all of the windows open the breeze did not blow through the house. The fan over the kitchen table had only one setting (high). In my opionion the house needs A/C.
No reading lights were available.
The overhead light in the 2nd bedroom was extremely dim
The walk into the pool was very slippery and there are no hand rails.
Living room furniture was not comfortable.
One of the wicker rocking chairs was coming apart.
Master bed was too low.
Recommended for:
Families with Teenagers
Owner's Response: While we appreciate the positive comments of this review and the helpful suggestions, we find the tone, the overall rating and some of the fault-finding unfair.
As for the helpful suggestions: we replaced the fan over the kitchen table with a three speed ventilator, and we replaced the bulb in the overhead light of the second bedroom.
Regarding the other complaints, there are reading lamps in both bedrooms; the water supply does pose a problem for part of the day at the end of the dry season for all the houses in our community, (this was not a problem specific to our house, as the caretakers must have mentioned); houses in our region generally do not possess air-conditioning since mornings, evenings and nights are cool though on the hottest days there may be a period during the day when the circulating fans do not cool the house sufficiently for comfort, (there is the pool to cool off in); no other party who has rented the house, of the over forty we have had, complained about the walk into the pool or the absence of handrails (this group did contain an elderly disabled person for whom we attached rails for the toilet and the shower, but could not for the pool entrance), or complained about the height of the master bedroom bed, or the living room furniture.
Our wonderful caretakers tell us that, overwhelmingly, guests love our house. The number of people who have come back for a second and third vacation attest to that.
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Helpful votes: 4/4
