Before I share my likes and dislikes of this home I just wanted to say this is a beautiful home with a fantastic pool layout with cabana. My wife and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary here with our 6 month old baby. For the price that we paid, it should have been perfect and we should not have been watching for the owner to walk in on us for our entire stay. With that said here are our dislikes and likes...
Conch House
Dislikes: The owner showed up the afternoon after our arrival “to plant a tree” in the yard but decided to knock, enter the key code and possibly step inside after opening the door while we were in the bedroom. I’m not sure if the large dog blanket discouraged him from continuing into the home but whatever made him to decide to close the door and go plant the tree with his sister, potentially saved his life. He seemed like a nice guy under different circumstances. But due to this violation of what we thought was our pretend private home, we were paranoid that he would be back to plant something else. For $500+ a night: the coffee top was missing on the coffee pot but I found a new pot in a box under the counter, the waterfall for the pool was not on and did not come with instructions on how to turn it on (I was told we could call the owner but I didn’t really want him coming back), the pool and spa directions were not great and could be spelled out better with details to the buttons, frying pan so old that I would rather cook my meal on the pavement and lick it off the ground instead, the A/C stops at 70 and master bedroom heats up as sun comes up. Pool is heated but "automated" so hopefully you are a northerner and used to colder waters. There were speakers in the cabana area but no directions on how to use them. When the pool gets dirty after a day or so, it doesn't self clean. On the day of check out, the cleaning lady sat in the driveway waiting for us to leave 30 minutes before check out. She was nice but again a little uncomfortable with the pressure.
Likes: Backyard and house were beautiful, garage had wagon and beach stuff, bicycles and rafts. The house is walking distance from the beach a short drive to the restaurants.