Equestrian Vacation at the Beach

It's taken me months to finally cool down from our horrible experience at the Saddle Pad to finally write this review. My husband and I decided to take a romantic vacation for a long weekend in April. We were so excited to stay at the Saddle Pad, as the photos looked lovely and I'm an avid rider. When we arrived, the first thing we noticed was how poorly misrepresented the "cottage" is. Be warned -this is not a cottage, it is a double wide trailer. And it's right next to the main road. We walked in to find that it was musty and reeked of cleaning supplies. In no time we both had terrible headaches from whatever chemicals were used to clean the trailer. We called the owners to let them know we weren't able to stay inside due to the chemical odors. Mark came by about 15 minutes later, walked through the house with us, and didn't say much other than "If you can't stay here, you can't stay here." I asked if we could work something out regarding our money, as they require you to pay everything up front, as well as a refundable security deposit, a daily charge for each dog (we intended on having our two dogs but we didn't even bring them in the house), plus accommodation taxes. He was deceivingly sweet and told me to send him an email when we got home and we'd work it out. When I emailed him, his tone was completely changed. He was condescending and dismissive and he insisted that he would not refund ANY of our money (not even the refundable security deposit or pet deposit). My husband had to argue with him daily for two weeks to finally get him to agree to send us the refundable security deposit. Stay FAR, FAR away from this place. Not only will they take your money and run, they have misrepresented their property by not calling it a double wide trailer and by cropping the photos in a deceiving manner.