For us the location of the house was spectacular and one of the best features. Being close to South beach, the bike path and Edgartown was fabulous. The four bedrooms each with their own bath was very nice. The open floor plan of the kitchen, living room and to outdoor porch space was fabulous too, with great outdoor furniture and an outdoor dinning table that we used most nights. This was the best equipped house we have ever rented!! The kitchen had most everything we needed, plenty of cookware, lobster pot, etc… having access to bikes, bike locks, towels, beach chairs and boogie boards and so much more came in very handy and was wonderful. The fact that we could bring our little puppy was huge in choosing this home too.
The down side is house is it’s in need of updating. Outdoor pealing paint, rusting and popping nails on the porch and the feeling of a lot of plastic. My daughter had issues with the mold in the home which could clearly be seen on the silk flowers. The Master bathroom is quite run down. The Master bedroom has an open stairwell to the kitchen/living room so no getting away from downstair activities which was to much of an issue for us since everyone was exhausted by the end of the day. Lovely porches off of the master bedroom but they did not have any furniture on them. I loved the lounge chair in the master bedroom.
Communication with the owner was excellent except for accessing the home the first night due to VRBO sending one set of instructions and the owner sending different instructions in an email that I had missed.
That said, we had a fabulous week! A few nights we all walked down to south beach to watch the stars on the beach (spectacular walk in the dark to the beach and the view of the stars there is incredible), walked to the airport for breakfast, we all biked from the house to Chappy for the day, biked to Edgartown, spent a day at our favorite beach - Long Point, went to Aquinnah beach and one morning got up before sunrise to see the sunrise at the Edgartown light house - unforgettable.