This home is beautiful and has a great layout. The top floor windowed gazebo area was such a nice addition for reading, musing and watching the sunrise. There was an area that goes behind the kitchen where there is a pantry, extra cabinets and drawers and the washer and dryer. Because it was out of the way we could put a lot of extras back there that we would need during the week but have it be out of the way. The furniture and beds were very comfortable and the dining room table was big enough to handle us all. Our favorite area had to be the outside deck on the third floor with all of the comfortable furniture. It was a wonderful place to relax and enjoy family time. The beach is close to the house so it was no problem going back and forth with the little ones.
There were a few things that should be addressed though. First, five doors could not be locked. I called the property managers and they sent over maintenance. They oiled the locks and showed me that you had to lift the handle as high as you could until it stopped, then you had to lift higher. Only then would the lock catch. That should have been made clear in the Welcome book. Even then, one lock was clearly broken - it just spun around - and even after they left we still couldn't turn the locks on two other doors. So out of the five doors that were looked at, in the end only two were working when we left. Also, the elevator. There is no code needed to use the elevator so literally anyone could come off the street and take the elevator to any of the floors in the house. The property managers say some people leave a gate open so the elevator can't work, but that is not really feasible if you have multiple families living on multiple floors going in and out at various times. It also doesn't address what happens when we went to the beach for the day and needed the elevator to get everyone back upstairs or when we left the house on Saturday and used the elevator to lug all our stuff to the garage and then drove away. There should be some way that that could be corrected. We were new to Pawley's island and I was looking forward to looking at the Welcome book for ideas of what to do in the area or of nearby restaurants. There is nothing in the book that is helpful. It does give the Wi-Fi password and tells you, oddly, not to strip the sheets off your bed but doesn't tell you what to do with the used towels. There is no mention of when the trash pickup days are. Our son went on a bike ride and said he saw a sign that said it was Tuesday/Friday but then a few days later I saw another sign that said it was Tuesday/Saturday. We asked the guard at the station and he said it was Tuesday/Saturday, so we went with that, but that is info that should have been clearly available. There are two garbage bins but not one that said recycle on it so even though there were separate garbage cans in the kitchen, we separated the recyclables but ended up putting them into both bins outside. It was not clear if they were going to be picked up by different trucks. One more thing - it would be very helpful if the owners labeled what all the light switches go to. We spent an inordinate amount of time trying to find out how to turn on and off the lights. There were also a few things that were broken when we got there - the trim for one- on one of the dishwashers in the kitchen, which we did tell the property manager about but was never fixed. And it might be beneficial to go through the kitchen drawers and cull down a bit. There were so many utensils that it was actually hard to find what you needed, and the one thing we needed - just a plain old can opener with the point to poke the holes in a can - we couldn't find. Having said all that, I know I sound like I am complaining but I'm not. This house is truly lovely and we hope to come back someday. These were just a few things that I feel the owners just overlooked.