Overall, this was an OK property and I don’t have anything ‘dealbreaker’ level to share. Here are a few thoughts if they help you to stay here or look elsewhere...
- this is a Vacasa property (as noted in the listing, so nothing sneaky but it was our first experience with the company) and I am not sure if all of their properties are like this, but compared to other VRBOs we have stayed at, this place lacked character and the little details that come from renting from an owner that uses the property. To compare to a hotel, this would be like a motel and not a boutique hotel. Cheap toilet paper and paper towels, door handles that stick and are hard to use, not great water pressure in bath tub and sinks, etc
- if you need a place to crash at and are in the area for something (festival, tournament, conference, etc) this is probably perfect for you. It has everything you need, is clean enough and has decent superficial renovations. If you are looking for a place where you will spend most of your vacation in the house and by the pool, I would suggest looking around before committing to this one
- There is a fee to heat to ‘spa’ and pool. That is in the listing so not saying it is sneaky, but it was new to us and we had missed it so had to turn on and pay for heat after we arrived. I put ‘spa’ in quotes because it is worth noting that it is not really a hot tub, and is not heated unless you pay the extra daily fee. It is one that overflows into the pool so even once we turned on heat, it was never hot and didn’t have jets (at least not that we found). This might be a known thing and just our bad for not being more familiar with pools, but sharing in case you’re like us
- Gardeners and Pool cleaner came while we were at the property. Not huge deal, but it was during the pandemic, so a bit of a thing to adjust to (pool cleaner didn’t have a mask if that is important to you). Minimal distraction but felt like something an owner would have worked around to have them show up in between guests perhaps, but guessing Vacasa as a property management company doesn’t worry about
- check in and communication with Vacasa was harder than we have experienced in the past with owners. It seems there is a universal check in time of 4 so guessing their call center support is flooded with calls at that time, so I get it...but we sat on hold for a while when we wanted to check on something and seems that wouldn’t have happened with a great host/owner