The good: Don and Mary will jump through hoops and knock themselves out to make sure you're happy. The bad: Everything else.
For starters, these other reviews are just NOT accurate. We understand that people may not want to hurt Don and Mary's feelings in the reviews, and we understand that having this property is important to Don and Mary...but if you're going to spend your hard-earned money, just be warned: Nothing about this listing is accurate.
The ad says it sleeps 5. It does not. Downstairs is a kitchen area with a fridge, stove, sink, overly cluttered counters, a coffee table and a futon frame overloaded with oversized mattresses. No place to really prepare food unless you stack up all the stuff they've loaded onto the counters, or put it all on the floor. Once you've prepared your food, there's no place to sit and eat. The futon is made up like a bed, and the mattresses flop over the side so there's nothing steady to sit on. No table or comfy chair. Plus, the entire futon tilts in towards the room so you can't sleep on it. Upstairs is a queen sized bed. That's fine. Then there's a stuffed chair with its ottoman-mate shoved up against it, all made up to look like a sleeping area. You can't get comfortable on it. It's not a bed. SO, the ad says it sleeps 5, when it really only sleeps 2.
Next, the clutter is everywhere. EVERYWHERE. VRBO won't let us upload photos, so we can't show you what it's like. Outside, there's no room to really walk around on the "lovely wooded acreage" because it is overwhelmed with a disturbing amount of clutter, garbage, and knick-knacks, piled on top of each other. It starts at your door and keeps going. Inside, the bathroom counters are overloaded, the kitchen counters are overloaded, the two small side tables are overloaded. The coffee table isn't, for what it's worth, and the clutter is just starting to spread upstairs..
Lastly, we opened the fridge to find a 1/2 gallon of milk and three rolls of bagels. Very thoughtful, but we don't drink milk and we don't eat bagels. Don brought us MORE of each. We also found a lot of food that previous guests had left behind -- opened containers of dip, sauce, salsa, etc. First, that's against Health Department Code. Second, it's just gross. We bolted after one night, as we suspect many others have.
This place is NOT AS ADVERTISED. PERIOD.
