6/10 Okay
Jason M.
7 Aug 2020
Liked: Check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Disliked: Cleanliness
Great house, nice owner, unfortunately, house not cleaned
My family and I stayed in this house for 6 nights. I’ll start with all the positives.....The house is very large and can accommodate at least two families. There are 3 large bedrooms with attached bathrooms and multiple bedrooms downstairs with bunk beds and a separate full bathroom. The deck is beautiful with views of the Block Island Sound and plenty of seating for eating, lounging or sitting around the fire pit.
The house has everything you might need for the beach-multiple beach chairs, boogie boards, kayaks, paddle boards, cooler etc. There is a ping pong table in the garage that our kids loved and a large TV in the Living Room. The kitchen is fully stocked with dishes, glasses, etc.
The location was good. It took less than 10 minutes to get to multiple beaches and restaurants. It’s also about a 20-25 minute drive to downtown Newport.
The negatives....We were very disappointed to realize that the house had not been cleaned when we got there. The owner was there fixing something when we arrived While he was kind enough to tell us about the area and give a quick tour around the house, we realized shortly after he left the extent to which the house had not been cleaned at all, aside from stripped beds (as a plus there were brand new sheets and towels). While we expected to wipe things down, and air out the house just to err on the side of caution, this was way beyond that. We spent our first few hours of vacation cleaning the kitchen, dirty bathrooms and various surfaces and vacuuming the house on the floors that we were using. This would be disheartening at any time, but it’s the age of COVID. We weren’t expecting the house to be sterilized for us, but we certainly weren’t expecting to have to clean food bits off counters and floors or dirty toilets.
We reached out to the owner, who admitted that he had been fixing the washer/dryer and didn’t get to check on his helper’s work around the house, and was very apologetic. That said, it seemed like it hadn’t been thoroughly cleaned in some time based on the dust bunnies etc.
Jason M.
Stayed 6 nights in Jul 2020