We booked our stay with high hopes. The pictures of the property and home online were stunning. We were not disappointed when we arrived to find a lovely home on a choice property with sweeping views of the mountains.
Sadly, our experience at NaMu quickly took a sharp turn for the worse. Within an hour of our arrival one of our guests sat in a chair at the dining room table and it collapsed under her. Sending her careening backward and hitting her head on the floor.
The fact that this guest is age 74, has had a recent back surgery shouldn’t really matter but it definitely caused a lot of worry. The representative/co-owner of the property was downright rude. Her exact response when we called her to make her aware was “oh yeah, we need to work on those chairs, some of them are loose. Don't worry, you won't be charged for the broken chair." Sorry, did I just hear that? She told us we could fix the chairs with the owners tools in the garage, or she was hours away. EVERY chair was loose or missing hardware completely.
We found the house to be well appointed with lots of space for plenty of people. However, things got really interesting later that night when at 1:30AM the smoke alarm in the master suite started chirping from a low battery and woke the whole house. Luckily, since the owner earlier gave us the lock code for the owners closet/tools in the garage we found a ladder. We got to climb up and disconnected the smoke alarm and attempt getting back to sleep. Rather than disturbing the owner at 1am, the next day we reached out, this time it took her about 10 hours to get back to us and when we finally spoke she greeted me curtly and told me she has other responsibilities and is the softball team coach and is not always available to talk to us. I let her know what happened with the alarms and again, “oh yes, we have not had a chance to do that and know we need to. Sorry.” She offered to drop off batteries so we could do it. We let her know it was her job to maintain her home, not ours. The days wore on with other things like there were no towels for the hot tub, the chemical levels were way off in the tub, the televisions/cable did not work and the railing on the deck was ready to fall off. We made the best of it, Leavenworth was a great getaway. But I would NOT recommend anyone stay with these owners (both NaMu and Zayly are their homes) because worst of all, they seemed wholly unwilling to own up and attempt to rectify our terrible experience.