The property location is perfect and it was clean-ish, except for flies that seemed to be everywhere. This house has no ac, which was disclosed on the property listing. Initially, this didn’t worry me as we’ve stayed at properties with no ac when visiting Southern California before. However most houses have air flow; this one does not. In the main living space, the entire wall of windows that over looks the beautiful ocean, there is one tiny window that opens and it’s on the far north side of the house. There is little to no air flow into the common living areas. The weekend we chose to visit there was an extreme heat advisory and the temps climbed to 85-90 degrees inside during the afternoons… using all of the fans in the property. Additionally the last night that we stayed there, the power went out. This was in the neighborhood, not just the property, so we have no idea if it was rolling blackouts or what the cause was. If a few beers weren’t had during dinner, we would have just driven back to our home state.
To make matters worse, the property company was miserable to work with. From trying to find out what was in the house and what wasn’t, to trying to figure out what was happening with the electricity. It seems like a number of the customer service reps were either out of the state or country or both. They kept stating that they would need to contact the local team (which of course I couldn’t wait on hold or do myself) and that they would call back. Which did not happen except for one call regarding the electricity; they called to tell me that it was a local interruption of power and that it should be back on within a few hours. Our group had 3 babies under 3 and keeping them cool was a nightmare.
If you choose to stay at this property, make sure the temperatures are very reasonable and you don’t need much from the property management company. We will not be returning, which is too bad because it is a beautiful property otherwise and great location.