Our family getaway was fantastic fun. The owner made check-in and check-out very easy. I think she never sleeps because she literally responded in minutes whether I messaged her in the middle of night or the middle of the day. The comfortable property appears to have been renovated in the last year or two. We used the SunKissed unit as our launchpad for activities around New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Without traffic, you are just 1 hour outside the French Quarter. We realize we lucked out with traffic and parade routes, but a couple days in a row we made it from our door near the Mississippi coast to standing on St Charles at big parades in an hour and 20 minutes. If you plan to visit plantations on the west side of New Orleans, please realize you'd be starting out an hour East of NOLA... But we planned for that drive time, so we did that too. Somehow we also had a short time to tour the relatively sleepy town of Bay St Louis. It's so cute. The beach is a little more than a half mile from the SunKissed property... And again, we lucked out with 80 degrees and bright sunshine. The water was much warmer at the beach than we thought, (mid February) so we didn't wear our swimsuits and we only went up to our knees. 3 nights was just NOT enough time for us! We came for Mardi Gras and discovered you should spend a lifetime in a friendly town like Bay St Louis.