Beautiful home w/a view when the fog lifted. Close to downtown. Clean, lots of upgrades spent w/home. Fabulous! Be prepared Verizon subscribers "no service". Hence the title of review. LOL WiFi is available so no worries. Wish a squeegee is provided to guests so windows are cleaned up to enjoy a cup of coffee w/the view. Definitely a place to come back! Thank you for a wonderful short getaway!
Lourdes T.
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Jan 2022
I came in January and it was pretty perfect. The home is cozy and well-stocked for a quiet weekend. Looking out on the sky and water is good in any month! I even snuggled up and sat in one of the outside chairs. Home has everything you'd need, and is incredibly pleasant. I already booked again! :-) Thank you!
Mary C.
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Jan 2022
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We loved this place. It should be a 5* for any number of reasons. The location is perfect for a vacation like ours centered around hiking Pacific NW Trail sections on Whidbey and Fidalgo Islands. The house is super and was exceptionally clean. It has a wonderful layout for one couple or two, or for a small family. We love the house design -- with the two bedrooms separated, the beautiful wall of windows looking out on the bay (oh the bald eagles!), the furnishings, the cleanliness. All top notch and wonderful. All, by us, 5*
NEEDS: The house does need a couple of things: more pots and pans, cookie sheet or pizza pan, some coffee or tea mugs (say 14-20 oz with big handles); and some lap blankets in the living room.
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH: (1) We arrived on a cold--for the area--afternoon with temps of ~30 F and big winds. The house was 62F. Even setting the thermostat to 78F it took 24 hours for the temperature to get to 68F (see note about lap blankets above, plus we wore our thin down coats the first 24 hours). (2) The king size bed in the gorgeous main bedroom was too soft for our liking; however, we are backpackers who prefer sleeping on the ground on a 1: pad so we may not be the typical guest!).
SUPPLY ODDITIES: I repeat, we love the house and surely would come back if our plans warranted. One oddity--how the house was supplied--however makes us want to drop the rating to a 4*. Upon arrival we learned that the house came with only "3 days worth of toilet paper" (separate all else, of course, begging the question: who decides how many rolls equals 3 days, anyway?!), plus learned that we'd been left just 3 dishwasher sachets and a 98% empty laundry detergent container. The lack of supplies in a gorgeous place is surely a first world problem, fully granted. But given many choices of where to go, and given we spent a lot of money to come for 10 days, it sure seems weird we had to take time (and $) to go purchase such rudimentary supplies. Seems like the management company would supply house staples for the entire stay. Are we missing something about standard practices in the short term rental world?
KATHERINE G.
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Jan 2022
