We stayed over New Year’s as a family of four (5 and 7 yo). We wanted our own pool due to covid and finding an appropriately sized house with pool is difficult in the 30A area. As a result, this house was bigger than we needed but checked our boxes of private pool and walking distance to beach and town.
The house is as described and suitable to a couple families. I cannot imagine piling in as many people as they can sleep there, but I guess some people wouldn’t mind. The bathroom situation is not set up for 18 in our opinion (or even close to that).
We actually slept in one of the ground floor bedrooms, so as to be on the same floor as our kids, who wanted to sleep in the bunk room. As a result, I sort of felt like we stayed in a basement the whole time. Someone with older kids could’ve stayed in the master, two floors higher, and probably not felt that way.
We liked the pool although I wish they’d prorate the pool heating fee for short stays. It was heated to 90 though, which was great since we visited in December.
The location is good. We could walk with our kids to downtown Rosemary and to the beach. The nearest beach access is probably 5 minutes walk and town is 10. There were only a couple rusty beach chairs and a couple noodles at the house, so I’d suggest to bring your own.
We didn’t do much cooking but the what we used worked fine. I wish they’d give a disposable sponge or something to wash pans. We knew to bring our own dish soap as none was provided, but had to use a dish towel to wash a pan.
Management was responsive and check-in was easy with a code on the door. Check out wasn’t bad, emptying trash cans and piling up the towels, but we didn’t have to strip beds or wash anything. The cleaning crew arrived on the dot at 10am on our day of checkout.
It’s a perfectly nice unit, but we probably prefer something a little more upscale overall. It’s very shabby chic and feels like a rental. I think for the right group, this is probably a great property, but it was probably wasn’t quite right for us.