Relaxing, Sunfilled Home, PRIVATE Beach on Manasota Key in Venice

Great time for entire family.

Alex (Mississauga, Ontario)
Review submitted: January 12, 2012   Date of arrival: December 3, 2011

We stayed in this house twice already, our latest stay in December for a week.
We enjoyed our stay as always.
The house was clean, fully equipped so that the only thing to buy was food.
It was nice to be able to grab a fresh orange straight from the tree in the back yard and to squeeze a fresh tropicana into your glass.
Shopping is close, public library with free internet round the corner.
The private beach was beautiful. It takes you 1 min by car to get there, free parking is provided. If there were 20 people on the beach then we considered it overcrowded. You get to know these people quickly, they look out for each other. Since the beach is private theft is simply non-existing so you can leave your valuables, no problem.
You leave the beach around 6pm and play tennis until 9pm in a nearby park before the dinner.
Life is good.

Recommended for: age 55+, families with young children, families with teenagers, girls getaway

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Helpful votes: 2 / 2

Good Times in South Venice

neil (Toronto)
Review submitted: August 27, 2011   Date of arrival: August 1, 2011

As repeat visitors to this property over the past three years, we want to thank the owners once again for our most recent visit in early August. The place was clean and comfortable as always. We always enjoy our time spent in the house and at the beach. We will be be back.

Neil and Terry

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Helpful votes: 4 / 4

Could have been perfect

shaemarie (Port Clinton, OH, U.S.A)
Review submitted: April 12, 2011   Date of arrival: April 4, 2011

Upon arriving at the house everything looked great. It looked like the owners cared about making our stay good. The house keeper on the other hand didn't do her job very well. There were dozens of short black hairs in the tub that didn't drain hardly at all. There were two dead cockroaches in the laundry room. We didnt get a chance to enjoy our backyard due to the fact that the grass was over ankle high. When we used the washer/dryer it ruined our cloths with some kind of orange substance. This same stains were on all the sheets and towels. There were linens left in the dryer. There were dirty dish rags in the sink and the refrigerator was dirty with crumbs and other food. There was garbage in the mulitple recycling bins on the back patio so we could not enjoy that either. I received an electric shock from an uncovered broken outlet in the master bedroom while trying to plug a light in. Some of the silverware had crusts of food on them. The coffee maker had old coffee in the bottom and was very dirty and filled with loose grounds. There was sand in one of the beds in the extra bedroom. There was used a used bar of soap and an almsot gone bottle of baby soap in the shower. The house was cute and exactly what we wanted but the cleanliness was unacceptable. I didn't call the house keeper upon arrival. I assumed she didn't care much about cleaning before we arrived so I didn't want her there after we drove for 24 hours and just wanted to sleep. We removed the hair from the tub and the bugs from the laundry room. We washed everything again and just went on with our vacation.

Recommended for: families with teenagers, girls getaway

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Helpful votes: 7 / 8