This house is located just off the main highway down an unmarked road. Initially we loved the seclusion, but the second night there was extremely loud music playing somewhere nearby and it was blasting from 6pm to 7am. People here like to party. Pura Vida. The view was gorgeous and the pool would have been great, but it was so dirty that we couldn't even see the bottom. I didn't get in it once. The property manager promised the second day it would be better because he needed to clean it. Well, I don't know what he did, but by the end of our stay the pool hadn't changed at all. It looked like it needed to be drained, bleached, and scrubbed with steel wool.
Our stay was last minute and we appreciated the owners letting us come in at short notice. However, the owners response time was very slow and we submitted a payment when we requested to book the property, but the owner didn't approve it in time so it didn't go through. So when we came back to the property after a long day at the beach, looking forward to showering and going out to dinner, the property manager was there waiting, his car parked behind ours- and basically wouldn't let us leave until he had confirmation from the owner that we had resubmitted the payment. It was a little disconcerting. The house is older and the appliances are also older. *note- the oven is in Celsius* The set of table and chairs on the patio with a view of the pool look pretty, but the cushions are too thick on the chairs and you can't sit properly at the table to enjoy a meal. The next thing that bothered me was lack of fresh sheets on the beds. The first night my 7 year old daughter got into bed and was promptly stung by a scorpion. I proceeded to pull all the sheets and pillowcases off our 2 beds shake them, and re-make the beds. There were white particles under our pillows, so I know they had been sitting like that for awhile. Our guests however weren't as vigilant. The next morning as another girl was making her bed she found a scorpion in her bed near her pillow. Luckily she didn't get stung. Maybe spraying the perimeter of the house and the inside corners of the rooms with bug spray might prevent future scorpion findings.
The last thing that bothered me was the lack of cleanliness in the kitchen. Part of the allure of renting a house over a hotel is the ability to make your own meals. In the utensil drawer mold was growing on several of the items. The garbage bags provided were too small for the can.