Our stay: July 20th- July 25th
The house itself was nice, except for the stove that stopped working the 2nd day of our 5 day stay and NEVER got fixed, I'll explain later.
Third level:
The house has a very spacious master bedroom with a large walk-in closet, which was nice. Only cons were the large windows towards the top of the vaulted ceiling let in SO much sunlight into the room at 6am, it was hard to sleep past sunrise and the bedroom door would never stay shut.
The loft area has a twin size bed and nice viewing area. There's enough room to put down an air mattress for extra sleeping arrangements, which is what we did for our kids.
Second level:
This is where the living room, kitchen, laundry room, bathroom and other two bedrooms are. There's seating for 6 at the table and two at the kitchen counter which is nice for a larger family. It's all open space with the living room so it wasn't too difficult to hold conversations from the kitchen table and others sitting on the futon couches.
Kitchen was well stocked with all the necessary dishes, utensils, pots and pans, cookie sheets, etc. They had a microwave, toaster oven, rice cooker, small crockpot, blender, and air pop popcorn maker.
The two bedrooms were decent size and had larger closets and dressers. There's a bathroom located between the bedrooms, which is the only other bathroom in the house besides the master bathroom on the 3rd level.
Outside the 2nd level is a wrap around deck with the jacuzzi, which for us was the main reason we selected this house. Who doesn't want to relax in a Jacuzzi and watch the ocean shores and the stars at night?
It was nice, especially at night with the lights on that change colors. We had some very windy days during our stay, so depending on your tolerance, you may not last long with the cold wind in your face, lol.
The lower level is the 3 car garage, which we let the kids run around in since it's connected to the recreation room (there's plenty of parking space outside.) We also played some family games down here, it would be nice if they had some foldable chairs and foldable table to use for card games and such. The rec room has a foosball table, small pool table, little putting green, and an older tv with older VHS tapes. There's only this tv and one tv in the living room, which ended up being ok for us, but if your family likes to watch a bunch of TV, you might need to bring a laptop or other devices.
Overall this would have been a 5 star stay for us if we hadn't had unresolved problems that were very impactful. When we arrived there was a note saying one of the burners on the electric stove wasn't working, but after our first night there, the stove stopped working completely. I immediately contacted Vacasa and let them know about the issues and they said they would be in contact with the local office. I did not hear from them until the next day, which was very disappointing. We had already purchased all of our groceries for our stay, we have a large family so we needed to be able to cook, eating out is so expensive.
Day 3 someone from the local office reached out and said they had a brand new stove to install but they were struggling to find someone to come install it and they would get back to us. Day 3 passed and still no way for us to cook.
I kept reaching out, as you could imagine this was a very frustrating situation. The evening of day 4 they finally got someone to come install the new stove, but it didn't work either, seems they have an electrical problem. They said they'd try to get an electrician out, but our last day passed and we never heard back from anyone about the electrician and they no longer returned my call to give any update.
So, this was not a good first experience with VACASA. I'm still trying to contact them to get compe...