House is great. Great neighborhood with a real cozy family atmosphere, easy walk to the beach, easy walk to the pool, traffic wasn’t too bad and so convenient to nearly everything.
If there is a downside it’s parking. The house, and all the houses in the complex, sleep 12 or more. The houses have only 2 parking places and a limited number of spaces (8) that are “reserved” for a cost available for the week.
Help me understand how 12 people and luggage can make a long trip in two vehicles unless it’s a large van! I reserved the extra parking spot in April as I was concerned about it. Sure enough on day 1 we pull in and someone is in the reserved spot I paid $70 for. Thankfully that day, Paul was able to get it taken care of (he is awesome by the way). But, it was a constant issue. People from the condos that are attached to the property would park there to use the pool which made no sense since there was plenary of parking in the condo lot which the people like us in the houses (cottages) are warned about excessive towing bills if we park there. We were not able to have a friend from Panama City visit us for the day because there is no parking. Finally, I elected to not move my car from the “reserved” spot so I wouldn’t loose it as there is absolutely no where else to park.
Apparently the HOA that oversees the houses also oversees the condos so it seems an easy solution. There was always a lot of empty parking in the condo lot!
I was able to meet and talk with an owner of one of the houses and he said the parking thing has been an issue for years with no apparent immediate solution.
So, the house is great, we’ll maintained and really convenient. If you have two vehicles your golden and no as the two parking spots are right in front of the houses. The house is well equipped but don’t expect to catch any local TV. TV is Limited to internet TV and most of that is national stuff.
Wireless internet is awesome and really fast.
Evolve was great to deal with.