Let’s start with the house. Checkin was seamless, the house was very cute, clean, well decorated and appointed with mostly all of the essentials. There were cordless phone chargers everywhere which was a nice touch and plenty of space for 4 adults, a 3 and 1 year old. They had beach items which was also very handy and toys and books for small children.
The neighborhood pool was also amazing!
Location: here’s where it gets a little meh. If you are staying here and expecting to walk to the beach with your cooler, tents, chairs, etc: don’t. It’s an 8 minute walk carrying nothing and the “path” to the beach is a narrow deep sandy trail through brush and schlepping your stuff is not advised. Also, the beach itself behind the house was pretty nasty - absolutely covered in seaweed and the water was dirty brown.
That being said, we decided to drive towards Mexico Beach and try that instead and ended up stopping about 10 minutes from the house at a roadside beach access where the sand was much cleaner and clear and had a pretty lovely beach day. Parking was relatively empty and the beach stayed pretty quiet - it’s also June and peak Summer season with school out.
In the opposite direction about 10-15 minutes is an adorable downtown area and we tried several restaurants and every meal we had was very good.
Overall I would absolutely recommend this house and stay if you want a chill and relaxing beach vacation BUT just know you need to drive to an acceptable beach.