10/10 Excellent
Linda L.
25 Apr 2023
Liked: Cleanliness, communication, location, listing accuracy
Paradise in the keys
Linda L.
Stayed 63 nights in Feb 2023
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SOUTHERN SUNSET - As seen on House Hunters-S228 E6 - Family Time in the FL Keys
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Reviews
10 out of 10
Exceptional
4 bedrooms2 bathroomsSleeps 12135.6 sq m
Popular amenities
Explore the area
Cudjoe Key, FL
- Venture Out Keys7 min walk
- Upper Sugarloaf Key7 min drive
- Florida Keys Beaches8 min drive
- Key West, FL (EYW-Key West Intl.)32 min drive
Rooms & beds
4 bedrooms (sleeps 12)
Bedroom 1
1 King Bed
Bedroom 2
1 Queen Bed
Bedroom 3
1 Queen Bed
Bedroom 4
2 Single Bunk Beds
2 bathrooms
Bathroom 1
Soap · Towels provided · Toilet · Shower only · Jetted bathtub · Shampoo · Hair dryer
Bathroom 2
Soap · Towels provided · Bathtub or shower · Toilet · Shampoo · Hair dryer
Spaces
Deck or patio
Kitchen
Kitchenette
Balcony
Outdoor play area
Dining area
About this property
SOUTHERN SUNSET - As seen on House Hunters-S228 E6 - Family Time in the FL Keys
BOAT RENTAL: We offer to rent our personal boats to our guests, only. We own:
Flats Boat - 17 ft Ranger with E Tech 75
Bay Boat - 24 ft Bay Scout with 225 HP Yamaha
Open Fisherman - 29-ft Ocean Runner with twin 300 HP Verrado's
These boats are set up with everything you need to fish the Keys, including spot lock trolling motors, Chart plotters, Depth finders, and everything else including fishing tackle. In the pictures you will see all three boats tied up at the docks. Please call me if you are interested. I get 15 calls a day from insurance scammers from all area codes. You may have to leave a message.
FISHING AND DIVING. If you are fishermen or divers, Southern Sunset is an excellent property and location. Dockage for two boats. The 38-foot dock has a fish cleaning table, battery charging, and wash down hose. The Tiki Deck has an additional 14-foot dock that will accommodate up to a 24-foot bay boat, or smaller. Located on the ground floor, you will have 2 upright Bait Freezers and a COMMERCIAL GRADE ICE MAKER, 250-lb storage, 17-lb per hour. On the ground floor OUT OF THE SUN you will have plenty of room for all your dive gear, spear guns, fishing rods, coolers and other gear.
Cruise 100 yards to the end of the canal, follow the markers and you have a straight shot to Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary, or American Shoal and beyond. Adolphus Bush Wreck - 15 miles, Key West Channel-21 miles, Sand Key Light-25 miles, End of the Bar-32 miles, Marquesas- 32 miles, Coal Bin Reef or Half Moon Shoal- 52 miles. If you want to explore the back country, it is 6 miles around the point to the Kemp channel bridge, 11 more miles to the edge of the Gulf.
In front of the house there is parking for four vehicles, and one boat trailer. Until he gets his house built, my most amazing neighbor will allow additional parking for our boat trailers there on his property next door. You will have plenty of privacy here with fences and lush landscaping enclosing the property on both sides.
Ready to relax? Sit on the Sunset Balcony, or Tiki Hut dock at the end of the canal, and watch the amazing sunsets across the bay. Thanks to the prevailing easterly winds, the canal is most often clean and clear. Swim & snorkel right off the dock. Launch our paddle boards from the easy access launch ramp. Paddleboard out to the bay and snorkel for Lobster. Use the outdoor shower to wash off the salt water.
Feed the plentiful Mangrove Snapper, Lane Snapper, Small Grouper, angle fish, and baitfish right off your dock. We have a resident 24-inch Barracuda. You will enjoy that for sure. We supply the first bag of fish food!!
If you want nightlife and shopping, it is a 20-mile scenic drive to Key West. Drive over in the evening and watch the breathtaking sunsets over the bridges and bays.
For outdoor dining here at the house, use the outdoor refrigerator and barbeque grill for family gatherings on the shaded ground floor. You have table and bar seating on the ground floor for 18. On the Sunset Balcony there is additional seating for 4 at the glass top table and chairs, plus 2 more at the Sunset Table for 2. Inside you will have a dining table for 6, which can be converted to a table for 10. In the kitchen is seating for 4.
If you find time for TV, you will have a living room with three loveseat recliners and a wall mounted 72-inch ROKU smart TV with cable, internet, DVR, and Wi-Fi. Plus, a smart TV (no cable) downstairs behind the bar in the outdoor living area.
The Smith family invites you to turn our house into YOUR house and enjoy your stay in the beautiful Florida Keys.
Flats Boat - 17 ft Ranger with E Tech 75
Bay Boat - 24 ft Bay Scout with 225 HP Yamaha
Open Fisherman - 29-ft Ocean Runner with twin 300 HP Verrado's
These boats are set up with everything you need to fish the Keys, including spot lock trolling motors, Chart plotters, Depth finders, and everything else including fishing tackle. In the pictures you will see all three boats tied up at the docks. Please call me if you are interested. I get 15 calls a day from insurance scammers from all area codes. You may have to leave a message.
FISHING AND DIVING. If you are fishermen or divers, Southern Sunset is an excellent property and location. Dockage for two boats. The 38-foot dock has a fish cleaning table, battery charging, and wash down hose. The Tiki Deck has an additional 14-foot dock that will accommodate up to a 24-foot bay boat, or smaller. Located on the ground floor, you will have 2 upright Bait Freezers and a COMMERCIAL GRADE ICE MAKER, 250-lb storage, 17-lb per hour. On the ground floor OUT OF THE SUN you will have plenty of room for all your dive gear, spear guns, fishing rods, coolers and other gear.
Cruise 100 yards to the end of the canal, follow the markers and you have a straight shot to Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary, or American Shoal and beyond. Adolphus Bush Wreck - 15 miles, Key West Channel-21 miles, Sand Key Light-25 miles, End of the Bar-32 miles, Marquesas- 32 miles, Coal Bin Reef or Half Moon Shoal- 52 miles. If you want to explore the back country, it is 6 miles around the point to the Kemp channel bridge, 11 more miles to the edge of the Gulf.
In front of the house there is parking for four vehicles, and one boat trailer. Until he gets his house built, my most amazing neighbor will allow additional parking for our boat trailers there on his property next door. You will have plenty of privacy here with fences and lush landscaping enclosing the property on both sides.
Ready to relax? Sit on the Sunset Balcony, or Tiki Hut dock at the end of the canal, and watch the amazing sunsets across the bay. Thanks to the prevailing easterly winds, the canal is most often clean and clear. Swim & snorkel right off the dock. Launch our paddle boards from the easy access launch ramp. Paddleboard out to the bay and snorkel for Lobster. Use the outdoor shower to wash off the salt water.
Feed the plentiful Mangrove Snapper, Lane Snapper, Small Grouper, angle fish, and baitfish right off your dock. We have a resident 24-inch Barracuda. You will enjoy that for sure. We supply the first bag of fish food!!
If you want nightlife and shopping, it is a 20-mile scenic drive to Key West. Drive over in the evening and watch the breathtaking sunsets over the bridges and bays.
For outdoor dining here at the house, use the outdoor refrigerator and barbeque grill for family gatherings on the shaded ground floor. You have table and bar seating on the ground floor for 18. On the Sunset Balcony there is additional seating for 4 at the glass top table and chairs, plus 2 more at the Sunset Table for 2. Inside you will have a dining table for 6, which can be converted to a table for 10. In the kitchen is seating for 4.
If you find time for TV, you will have a living room with three loveseat recliners and a wall mounted 72-inch ROKU smart TV with cable, internet, DVR, and Wi-Fi. Plus, a smart TV (no cable) downstairs behind the bar in the outdoor living area.
The Smith family invites you to turn our house into YOUR house and enjoy your stay in the beautiful Florida Keys.
Property manager
John Smith
Languages
English
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House Rules
Check in after 3:00 PM
Minimum age to rent: 35
Check out before 11:00 AM
Children
Children allowed: ages 0–17
Events
Events allowed: family gatherings, birthday parties, weddings
Invite our neighbors, they are amazing folks.
Pets
No pets allowed
Smoking
Smoking is not permitted
Important information
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
Parties and events (including family gatherings, birthday parties and weddings) are allowed on site. Maximum attendees: 25
Note from host: Invite our neighbors, they are amazing folks.
Long-term renters welcome
Host has not indicated whether there is a carbon monoxide detector on the property; consider bringing a portable detector with you on the trip
Host has not indicated whether there is a smoke detector on the property
About the area
Summerland Key
Located on the waterfront, this holiday home is in Cutthroat Harbor Estates, a neighbourhood in Summerland Key. Florida Keys Beaches and Coupon Bight Aquatic Preserve reflect the area's natural beauty and area attractions include Blue Hole and Wilhelmina Harvey Park. Big Munson Island and Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary are also worth visiting. Make sure you get close to the area's animals with activities such as game walks and birdwatching.
Cudjoe Key, FL
What's nearby
- Venture Out Keys - 7 min walk - 0.7 km
- Upper Sugarloaf Key - 7 min drive - 6.5 km
- Florida Keys Beaches - 8 min drive - 6.5 km
- Key West Visitors Center - 15 min drive - 14.7 km
- Sugarloaf Beach - 22 min drive - 17.9 km
Getting around
Restaurants
- Mangrove Mama's - 7 min drive
- Boondocks Grille & Draft House - 8 min drive
- Kiki's Sandbar - 11 min drive
- The Square Grouper Bar & Grill - 18 min walk
- Looe Key Tiki Bar & Grill - 9 min drive
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About the host
Hosted by John Smith
Hello potential renters. I am glad you are looking at our property here on Cudjoe Key.
We purchased our house here in September 2022. It is the realization of a dream that started so many years ago. When you look through the pictures you will come across a couple of mighty cute boys, standing on the beach with the Long Key Bridge behind them. The dream started with them. We have lived in Florida since they were born, and every chance we could get we have been coming to the Keys, fishing and diving. 43 plus years later, they are grown and have families of their own, and we are all still addicted to the Keys. We all now live in central Florida, where they all work in the family businesses. We have wanted to own our own home here for so long. Martha and I wondered if it could ever happen. These homes are not cheap. Ha.
We were on vacation this past summer staying on Cudjoe Key at Venture Out. We didn’t necessarily intend to buy anything, didn't believe we even could, but the wind was blowing hard, so all 10 of us spent three days looking at houses. We had almost given up when we ran across this house. It was in the right place, the right size, the right look, and the right value. We started to work on making the purchase. Many times we thought it wouldn’t work out, but with the perseverance of my amazing real estate agent, Dawn, and my equally amazing mortgage broker, Kristen, they shepherded this all the way through to the end. Even after we closed, we still could not believe it was ours.
In September we headed down to get it ready for ourselves, and our renters. The house was excellent, but once you start working on things, you find things that will make it even better. So, I moved in to work on the improvements, the family came down on weekends to help when they could, and by this past January it was ready. We are in love with this place.
We hope you will enjoy Southern Sunset as much as we intend to.
We purchased our house here in September 2022. It is the realization of a dream that started so many years ago. When you look through the pictures you will come across a couple of mighty cute boys, standing on the beach with the Long Key Bridge behind them. The dream started with them. We have lived in Florida since they were born, and every chance we could get we have been coming to the Keys, fishing and diving. 43 plus years later, they are grown and have families of their own, and we are all still addicted to the Keys. We all now live in central Florida, where they all work in the family businesses. We have wanted to own our own home here for so long. Martha and I wondered if it could ever happen. These homes are not cheap. Ha.
We were on vacation this past summer staying on Cudjoe Key at Venture Out. We didn’t necessarily intend to buy anything, didn't believe we even could, but the wind was blowing hard, so all 10 of us spent three days looking at houses. We had almost given up when we ran across this house. It was in the right place, the right size, the right look, and the right value. We started to work on making the purchase. Many times we thought it wouldn’t work out, but with the perseverance of my amazing real estate agent, Dawn, and my equally amazing mortgage broker, Kristen, they shepherded this all the way through to the end. Even after we closed, we still could not believe it was ours.
In September we headed down to get it ready for ourselves, and our renters. The house was excellent, but once you start working on things, you find things that will make it even better. So, I moved in to work on the improvements, the family came down on weekends to help when they could, and by this past January it was ready. We are in love with this place.
We hope you will enjoy Southern Sunset as much as we intend to.
Why they chose this property
The pictures will give you a pretty good idea about the property. The following will give you a good idea of what you should expect, and why, if you stay at our house.
We purchased this property for our family so we could all vacation here together. There are 14 of us. We have brothers and sisters and their families that also want to come down to spend time in the Keys. Our property here is set up so we will have everything we need and want in order to have a great time. When you get here, you will find the same quality arrangements for you as well. We aren’t real estate investors offering a rental property. We are a family with an awesome vacation home, and we want to share it, at a fair price, so other people can enjoy it as much as we do.
Our family will come down in between rentals. We rent for 28 days. If the Calander shows the dates you want are blocked off by the Smith Family, be sure to email or call me. IMPORTANT; Our family fully understands that our renters come first. If we have the opportunity to rent the property, our family will have to come down some other time. We all work in the family businesses. We have flexible schedules. If you have a question about availability, please call me, or send an email. We can look at the dates and figure out something for you.
Checking into Southern Sunset is like checking into a motel room. Clean, organized, spartan. No nick knacks, clutter, personal stuff. You will hardly know this house belongs to anyone but you, which is our goal. We have a complete instruction booklet, paper towels, tissue, coffee filters, and coffee (Black Rifle Silencer Smooth) to help you get started on your first morning before you head to the store. Our kitchen has pretty much every cooking and serving utensil you could want. New stove and microwave as well. Enjoy.
We purchased this property for our family so we could all vacation here together. There are 14 of us. We have brothers and sisters and their families that also want to come down to spend time in the Keys. Our property here is set up so we will have everything we need and want in order to have a great time. When you get here, you will find the same quality arrangements for you as well. We aren’t real estate investors offering a rental property. We are a family with an awesome vacation home, and we want to share it, at a fair price, so other people can enjoy it as much as we do.
Our family will come down in between rentals. We rent for 28 days. If the Calander shows the dates you want are blocked off by the Smith Family, be sure to email or call me. IMPORTANT; Our family fully understands that our renters come first. If we have the opportunity to rent the property, our family will have to come down some other time. We all work in the family businesses. We have flexible schedules. If you have a question about availability, please call me, or send an email. We can look at the dates and figure out something for you.
Checking into Southern Sunset is like checking into a motel room. Clean, organized, spartan. No nick knacks, clutter, personal stuff. You will hardly know this house belongs to anyone but you, which is our goal. We have a complete instruction booklet, paper towels, tissue, coffee filters, and coffee (Black Rifle Silencer Smooth) to help you get started on your first morning before you head to the store. Our kitchen has pretty much every cooking and serving utensil you could want. New stove and microwave as well. Enjoy.
What makes this property unique
During Lobster season, you can paddle our paddle boards out of the canal around 100 yards into the bay, and beyond. Secure the board to yourself, snorkel the area and pull the board around with you. You will find all types of bottom cover, grass flats with lobster holes, and plenty of lobster. Climb aboard, paddle a while, and drop over again.
If you are new to lobstering, study the rules, size limits, seasons. Be sure to tow the dive flag.
If you are new to lobstering, study the rules, size limits, seasons. Be sure to tow the dive flag.
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