Our family stayed at After Dune Delight for nearly a week with our friends and their child, and the quiet location just outside of town suited us well. Even on rainy days, there were comfy couches, Wi-Fi, and lots of natural light for the adults, and multiple attached, external play areas for the kids (including foosball and ping pong in the detached garage, and a PacMan video arcade game in the pool room). The sprawling, well-stocked kitchen allowed us to prepare great shared meals, with filtered water and ice easily available from the fridge door for folks sensitive to the smell and taste of coastal water.
The house has two generous king bedrooms and a smaller bunk bed room upstairs, and a smaller queen bedroom off the main living area on the ground floor. The bathroom setup is a bit unusual: no shower in the massive master bathroom, but a really nice one in the accessible bathroom downstairs (super convenient for cleaning off salty kids); a Jack-and-Jill bathroom connecting the other large bedroom to the bunk room) ⊠but it all worked out well enough. Ceiling fans kept larger bedrooms and the huge open living space cool and breezy, and itâs clear that the owners have worked to make the space attractive and functional.
Our kiddo reports that her experience was âcozy, warm, and sandy.â Both kids particularly enjoyed hanging, flipping, swinging, and climbing on the play structure right outside the house, and running the long path over the dunes to Long Beachâs famous beach. (It is an excellent house for kids.) Itâs worthwhile noting clearly that while this is technically a beachfront property, the geography of Long Beach means that you can only just barely see the water from the upper floor, and itâs a 7-8min walk along a sandy path to the beach.