Casita de las Brisas - Steps to the beach, the bay and Second Street

We loved the having morning coffee on the front lanai, walking to the beach, and running on the path along the ocean. Comfy house with AC. Easy walking to beaches and 2nd St. Nice neighbors too. Would have liked to have access to a washer and dryer for the week, but otherwise a fantastic place. Highly recommend for adult groups!

This sweet little house was a perfect escape from the inland heat and crowds. I grew up in the area and it brought back the best memories of carefree summer days on the beach. The house is historically old but clean, updated, and very well maintained. Beds comfortable. Kitchen stocked with staples. Convenient location. Only challenge was parking, especially on street-cleaning days. Best part was the Bay and Ocean beaches were within a couple blocks and not at all crowded.

There is nothing to not love about this home. The location is perfect for going to the beach, shopping and dining. The house has everything you need and it very comfortable.

First the positive. The house is attractive and clean. The beds are comfortable. It is near the beach. The negative: 1. parking is very difficult. The only time you can get parking on the same street is during the week during the day. However if you go out for dinner or do anything else, when you come home you’ll have to search for a parking space and normally have to park a minimum of 1 to 2 blocks away. The listing is quite inaccurate about the difficulty of parking. 2. the owner is very difficult to get in touch with. He was nice the one time we were able to get him to return a phone call but after that he totally ignored all our questions. I had to call VRBO and ask them if they could get in touch with him so that he would answer our questions. His wife was better. 3. We are homeowners ourselves and have stayed in many homes when we travel. We take excellent care of the homes we stay in. The morning we left, the toilet flushed but it was a little sluggish. The water was clean in the toilet but my husband thought as a courtesy, we should call the owner and let him know in case it needed to be plunged. We called his wife who thanked us and told us to have a nice trip. About a week ago we received a notice from the owner asking for an additional amount of money for a “clogged toilet”. We called VRBO and disputed the additional charge. This property manager has a lot of nerve. We paid a lot of money to rent this house and we bought all of the insurances that VRBO offered. We would like to be paid for every time we had to plunge a toilet. His unresponsiveness to our questions was a red flag that we should have picked up on. We will know better and look for these kinds of signs in future rentals.