Anna Maria Island Townhome: Simply Beautiful in Anna Maria Island

So Great!

Gracie (Decatur, GA)
Review submitted: August 30, 2012   Date of arrival: August 18, 2012

Just got caught up from a great vacation and wanted to make sure to say thank you for such a perfect vacation home. Everything was super clean and extremely comfortable when we arrived which is very important to me and my mother who was traveling with us. The place was very pretty and beachy with plenty of light, several balconies and porches, lovely bedrooms and plenty of room for our family (there were 9 of us total). The pictures do not do it justice - we were pleasantly surprised at just how nice and clean it really was. We also really liked the location since we could walk everywhere and the golf cart got us around easily; we never had to get in the car if we didn't want to. It was really nice to have the garage and the extra parking (husband loved that). Plenty of beach towels, floats and coolers for the beach and everything we needed in the house. We also liked that there were TV's in every room since with that many people everyone could watch what they wanted at night. We were able to grill out right on the porch off the living area although we liked going out to dinner more since there are so many good restaurants on the island. The people on Anna Maria are so nice and the beaches there are the most beautiful I've ever seen. The one at the end of the street had great sand and pretty water and was almost like a semi-private beach. So great for our big crowd! The pool was great too; the kids loved it and so did we. (make sure to bring bug spray for dusk since the no-see-ums like to bite without it) We couldn't recommend this place enough - beautiful home, nice owners, clean, affordable, and convenient. We've already booked next August for the week before school starts and have begun counting the days!

Recommended for: age 55+, families with young children, families with teenagers, girls getaway, pet-friendly, sight seeing, tourists without a car

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Helpful votes: 8 / 9

So Great!

Gracie (Decatur, GA)
Review submitted: August 30, 2012   Date of arrival: August 18, 2012

Just got caught up from a great vacation and wanted to make sure to say thank you for such a perfect vacation home. Everything was super clean and extremely comfortable when we arrived which is very important to me and my mother who was traveling with us. The place was very pretty and beachy with plenty of light, several balconies and porches, lovely bedrooms and plenty of room for our family (there were 9 of us total). The pictures do not do it justice - we were pleasantly surprised at just how nice and clean it really was. We also really liked the location since we could walk everywhere and the golf cart got us around easily; we never had to get in the car if we didn't want to. It was really nice to have the garage and the extra parking (husband loved that). Plenty of beach towels, floats and coolers for the beach and everything we needed in the house. We also liked that there were TV's in every room since with that many people everyone could watch what they wanted at night. We were able to grill out right on the porch off the living area although we liked going out to dinner more since there are so many good restaurants on the island. The people on Anna Maria are so nice and the beaches there are the most beautiful I've ever seen. The one at the end of the street had great sand and pretty water and was almost like a semi-private beach. So great for our big crowd! The pool was great too; the kids loved it and so did we. (make sure to bring bug spray for dusk since the no-see-ums like to bite without it) We couldn't recommend this place enough - beautiful home, nice owners, clean, affordable, and convenient. We've already booked next August for the week before school starts and have begun counting the days!

Recommended for: age 55+, families with young children, families with teenagers, girls getaway, pet-friendly, sight seeing, tourists without a car

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Helpful votes: 3 / 3

Buyer Beware

Jasonfsf (Winter Haven, FL)
Review submitted: August 29, 2012   Date of arrival: June 24, 2012

Buyer Beware! This rental was not what was advertised. My family headed to our destination during a tropical storm (no fear, we're from Florida and we're used to it... we knew it would pass) only to find the place so disgusting that we actually turned around and made the two hour drive back home. We never even unpacked. In fact, my wife wouldn't even take her shoes off.

We looked at the reviews before renting and only saw one bad one in 2010, but the rest were good so we figured everything had been fixed. Unfortunately, everything mentioned in the bad review from 2010 was still an issue. To mention a few things.... the carpet was stained and nasty, the blinds in one room literally fell off the wall when I tried to open them, floor tiles were chipped, doors didn't close right, the walls were damaged, there was dust everywhere, and the garage wasn't even cleaned out enough to park in. Getting a partial refund was almost impossible even though we didn't even stay one night. I had to threaten to go to small claims court for misrepresting the unit in order to get the owner to agree to give me anything but the golf cart fee back.

We've rented from this site before and never had a problem so this was a total shock. After this was all over, I waited two months to post this review, trying to give the owner the benefit of the doubt. I was hoping the owner would update some pictures that my wife and I expressed were gross misrepresentations of the property, yet those pictures remain. I would not recommend this property to anybody and my experience makes me feel like it is not only misrepresented but PURPOSELY misprepresented, which is even worse. Buyer beware, what you see is not always what you get.

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Helpful votes: 16 / 16