Steps to Beautiful Long Beach in Gloucester

A fantastic experience at our "home" in Gloucester

Jerilyn (Waunakee, WI USA)
Review submitted: October 27, 2011   Date of arrival: October 16, 2011

My husband and I, two sons and their wives and three small grandchildren enjoyed a wonderful week. The owner of the property was great to deal with -- provided all the information we needed and was reachable by phone and e-mail if we were to have questions. The home was beautiful and the perfect layout for our family. The property was very clean and the amenities were perfect. We would definitely recommend this property to our friends and we hope to spend more time there ourselves. The beach was beautiful and the city and area offered a lot of good restaurants and fun sightseeing places. The Fishermen's Memorial was impressive and we found beautiful shells and sea glass along the beach. We toured the Cape Pond Ice Company which was very interesting and fun! The location was ideal -- we could enjoy the city but also close to Salem, Ipswich and the train to Boston. We all highly recommend this property and hope to have a family vacation here again in the future.

Recommended for: adventure seekers, age 55+, families with young children, families with teenagers, girls getaway, sight seeing, romantic getaway

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Fabulous family fun

marion (kailua, hi)
Review submitted: August 10, 2011   Date of arrival: June 15, 2011

our family of 9 including old any young each had room to spread out and retreat to. The home was ideally suited to our family with young children. The children found toys to suit each of them neatly organized and ready to play while we adults were able to get all the set-up done. The beach was perfect for the children. The water was shallow for a long way out and the horseshoe shape allowed full eye contact from a comfortable lounge chair on the sand. There were many really good shopping and eating places. My favorite restaurant was Lat 43. The kids fav was the ice-cream, sub, pizza, candy store within every afternoon walking distance - even for the 3 year old. We had many family members visit during the week and the house made it comfortable to host large numbers of guests. We recommend this vacation for families who want to share memories for a lifetime.

Recommended for: adventure seekers, age 55+, families with young children, families with teenagers, sight seeing, tourists without a car

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Nice house, but no privacy

jp (Las Vegas, NV)
Review submitted: August 8, 2011   Date of arrival: June 7, 2011

Any nice things about the house were overshadowed by the fact that the neighbors made us extremely uncomfortable. Luckily we're a very quiet family, but we still felt like a nuisance the entire time. There was no privacy at all. The neighbors made it perfectly clear from the moment we pulled up that they were watching us for the homeowner. We'd even see them looking in the windows, which completely freaked out my 89-year old grandmother. They never spoke to us, but they were always... around. It was unnerving. Because of the way the house is situated, there's a shared backyard with 3 other homes. We never cooked outside, let the children play outside, or even sat outside because neighbors would appear or just glare from the inside. It was just weird. I'm not sure what they would've done if were a big, fat, obnoxious drinking family!! We never heard from the homeowner during our stay or ever received any sort of check out requirements, so we took it upon ourselves to completely clean the house from top to bottom, wash linens, bring leftover food to a homeless shelter, take recyclables to a main center in a nearby town, and even clean out the in-house attached vacuum system (which looked like it had never been done before). Renter beware :(

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