I stayed here with my dad, stepmom, aunt and uncle and my husband. We absolutely loved the layout--with all 3 bedrooms having their own bathroom and shower. The balcony was spacious and full of sun--unfortunately it was cooler when we were there. The property is only half a mile from Gulf Shores State Park--which is awesome. I rented a bike 2 days, and biked there two days--ran through it another. The beach is RIGHT there--and it's an amazing beach. You are walking distance to plenty of restaurants and grocery stores are only a 10 minute or so drive away. We really liked that we just had a code to get in--with 6 people we didn't have to worry about keys.
So why 3 stars? The place didn't seem that clean. I was turned off because a used bar of soap was in our shower. The floors didn't seem like they had been cleaned for awhile. The towels are dollar store towels and worn out. My uncle's towel literally fell apart. I understand people might use them as beach towels if they are nicer, but maybe have a charge for any "misplaced" towels and actually have nice towels. When we were getting ready to leave and loading up our cars, our code stopped working before checkout!!! Luckily some of us were still in there otherwise I don't know what we would have done.
We didn't receive our email about what was and wasn't included until 5:00 pm the day before we checked in. All of us had already left home. I was disappointed about that as we had plenty of room for beach towels and other amenities that the place doesn't provide. The property doesn't have recycling but the beach does. We walked our recycling down to the beach. The pool area isn't that big--but the beach is plenty big!!
If able bring along extra toilet paper, paper towels, dish washer pods, garbage bags, hand and dish soap for kitchen, salt/pepper and any other seasoning, wine opener, shampoo/conditioner, extra laundry pods, beach towels.