The Pros:
- nice landscaping and beautiful area with birds and wildlife
- new interior and appliances
- they provide coffee creamer for you and a few coffee pods for their Keurig
- the linens seemed fresh and smelled wonderful
- Elk is a charming town
The Cons:
- The picture makes it look like you are directly overlooking the ocean, when in fact you have two roads between you and the ocean.
- Hidden Fees: they charge a very large cleaning fee + a booking fee, which totals to nearly half of the advertised nightly price and is added onto your bill. So if you are searching for places based on price, be aware you might have filtered out equivalently-priced places that don't have these hidden fees. Also, despite the cleaning fee, they ask you to do your dishes before you leave, the floor was sticky, and when I walked around with no shoes my feet got dirty; they also don't let you take the towels to the beach and don't do anything you would expect with a daily cleaning fee, like change linens/towels and take out trash. Another hidden fee is that if you stay late they will charge you significant fee, which they said was better than having to pay for an extra night.
- The internet is horrible. My husband and I tried two different computers (one windows, one linux) and two different phones (samsung and iphone) and we couldn't get internet to last for >5 minutes without dropping. They say their internet is good -- don't trust it.
- The view of the ocean is from a small-ish window and the way they have the furniture set up, you can't really see the view from anywhere convenient (furniture set-up is also weird because they have a TV but nowhere really to sit and watch the TV). Also, it can get quite foggy, so most of the time we didn't see the view (although that is just the nature of the area).
- The yard is shared with you and and homeowner, and they can see you from their deck/living room, so you don't really have any privacy to enjoy the view. Also, they have a hot-tub on their deck and it looks quite inviting but you can't use it, and the deck is roped off.
- The fridge makes a lot of weird noises. They say to just turn down the settings to make the noise go away, but if you do that then obviously your food doesn't stay cold.
- Beware that parts of this place have low ceilings, I bumped my head a few times.
- The shower water only stays hot/warm for a few minutes.