We booked this property specifically for the pool. It was listed, the construction completion date was stated as April 2022, and the property manager assured me the pool would be open for our late May stay. We communicated about this prior to booking. We arrived to the property, and the pool was an active construction site. We were not alerted to any construction delays, and certainly weren't told we were booking an active construction site.
We paid extra to book early check in TO ENJOY THE POOL (lol). And when we arrived the property manager was giving a tour to another group. There were multiple cars in the driveway, and as aforementioned, construction.
We found out when we were hit with a horrendous storm almost immediately after arriving, that many of the outside doors do not lock. We tried to hold them closed, but with no success. The wind blew in debris and even furniture. When asked about the doors not locking we were told to just "push couches up against them". We didn't pay a large sum of money to stay in a house where we would have to push couches up against the doors to lock them at night.
We lost power and water (the property is on septic). We had water for about an hour, and the water feels like septic tank water, it leaves a greasy residue on your hands btw! The home is apparently in a mobile data dead zone, as we also lost any ability to connect to a mobile data network when we lost power (and wifi). We had zero internet, and flimsy phone service at best. We had nowhere else to go, as the whole region lost power and we could not search for hotels with our zero internet access. To head back to where we were from would take hours and drive us into a storm (the one that killed 10 people). In spite of that, the owner has suggested over and over again that our stay must have been fantastic, and if it was so horrible we should have just driven into the storm. We unfortunately had to spend the night. It felt like camping, which can be great if that was your plan!
In the morning we woke up to loud beeping alarms. The property manager did nothing about them.
Overall this was an awful stay, and it ruined my friends bachelorette party. Some of these things were out of the owner's control, however lying about the pool was not.
They've now changed their listing to make it clearer that there is not a pool, so that's good I guess. But take everything this owner and property manager says with a grain of salt.