PRIVATE LOCATION GREAT VIEWS OF THE JUNGLE CANOPY AND OCEAN BEYOND-WALK TO BEACH

This is a tough place to review for me. My family and I came intending to stay for a week, but left after one miserable night.

I had inquired about the temperatures there, and was assured that it was high enough in the mountains that it was plenty cool at night even without air conditioning. This made sense, so I accepted those assurances.

When we arrived, it was hotter than usual (~7 degrees hotter than average) and inside the house was quite hot. I wasn't worried though, as I assumed it would cool down overnight. But even with all the windows and doors open and the fans on it was still over 85 degrees in the house by 2 in the morning according to our thermometer.

My wife got sick from the heat and our baby cried throughout the night. We left the next morning and spent the day searching for different rental house. Eventually we found one on the beach that had air conditioning in one room and much better ventilation throughout the house, and had a much better experience.

I informed Kathleen that we had vacated the house, but she was unable to find someone else to rent the house. She offered a token refund of one night's fees, so we are out almost the full charge on this property that was unusable due to the heat.

Outside of the heat - the property seemed very nice. The downstairs room is separate from the upstairs quarters, which could be a little awkward depending on your needs. There were lots of orange trees around to pick from (though our kids were a bit nervous about the very large spiders camped out all over!) and the views are quite nice.

Kathleen has told me that nobody has complained of the heat before - so perhaps we just had bad luck with the weather. I'd bet at 10 degrees cooler we would have had a fine time here. But with external temperatures around 95 this house was brutally hot and completely unlivable.