House any comfort, calm, very bright. Beach and port on foot - La Flotte en Ré

It is a nice and verry clean property. Everthing one needs is available. It is in a quiet neighbourhood. And the neighbours arre verry friendly. We had a verry good time at thé Isle of Te. Rita and Dirk

Very clean and comfortable. Excellent position in La Flotte and easy walking distance to beach. House has everything needed

Our week on the Ile de Re was fantastic. The house was superbly clean, well equipped and so easy to feel at home in. The location was excellent - only 10 minutes from the harbour and the lovely beach. The outside space was ideal for al fresco dinners, sun bathing and relaxing. The interior was stylish, comfortable and the kitchen was very easy to use - ideal for cooking fresh fish from the local market! The owners were so friendly and helpful - merci Jean Francois! We hope to return one day, and we recommend the house to everyone.

I have rented from HomeAway/Vrbo many times in Europe (either through my name or through friends/family) without any real problems - not ever. I am always kind to the owners, have met some lovely people and having been a landlord myself for 20 years, am conscious of little things. This time however, I cannot omit leaving comments on this property to advise future renters. The check-in and check-out was a very negative experience. Check-in less so - it took a very long time as the owners went into way too much detail in each room, lots of personal photos in the property and ordinarily I would not have commented on this - but in hindsight it was a sign. Check-out should have been simple - we used one extra set of sheets and had lost a key for a bike lock, which we had sitting out upon their arrival to discuss with them (they had our deposit so it was just to agree the extra charge, which was 50EUR). I even offered to go and buy the replacement lock to make things easier and suggested I pay the additional laundering of the sheets. In response, I was lectured by the owner in an aggressive tone for losing the bike key, not advising them we would need extra sheets (even though they were left accessible and it was unforeseen as I was ill and had to sleep on the sofa) and how far they had travelled that morning in the holiday traffic for this - they drive from another region on Saturdays to do the check in/out each week and I think also clean (despite me paying a cleaning fee). There were also negative comments about the frost in the refrigerator (it was there when we arrived) and a small tea mark on a plastic tablecloth which was easily wiped off. We were even asked to take the outdoor garbage before the next pick up (there was only pickup midweek and we had put our garbage out at that time)- not sure where we could have put it other than our car! The property was well equipped but it would have been helpful to have fans provided as the bedrooms heat up with all the pavement and it was almost impossible to sleep at night. I am writing this review in English, but have lived in French speaking countries for 10 years so all communication was in French - there was no misunderstanding. Ultimately I felt that the owners did not want to have renters in their second home and their expectations do not meet common rental practices for a weekly holiday rental.