Great layout, clean, light filled.

some minor maintenance required

The property was ok. But it needs to be properly managed: First National were terrible. I definitely won't be staying here again. Consider carefully, given my experience, whether it's worth it for you.

1. First National Real Estate want side deals outside the Booking.com platform. First national want credit card OUTSIDE the booking.com platform after I had already paid for the room. Which was kinda weird. If you want security - do it through the booking.com platform i said. But they said they're not going to hard over the keys. Which holds me up to ransom. 2. The key pick up location was like 10 km away from the property!?? 3. Had to go shopping for toilet paper and basic soap. This is deplorable. Looks like first national wanna charge $$ fees for managing the property, while outsourcing all the work to the guests. When you look at the list of requirements it is burdensome and onerous. 4. They want drivers license and ID faxed. 5. They will only rent this property out to +25 year olds. Such a policy is illegal in the state of victoria, both for long term rentals, and short stay.

Our little family of 3 enjoyed this spacious and well appointed home. It’s so close to Smith’s Beach which was wonderful. You do need to drive in to Cowes for shopping etc. but that didn’t bother us at all. it would be perfect for a larger family or 2 families of 4 holidaying together.

We opted for the linen service but I didn’t find it to be of particularly good quality or clean. There was pet hair on the sheets and the towels had stains on them. The house was mostly clean and comfortable but there were some things in the kitchen that we had to clean prior to using them. We assumed that there would be tea and coffee making ingredients because of the coffee machine but there was only a kettle and some tea bags. you really need to BYO everything. Would have loved WiFi but we knew it wasn’t at the house prior to booking. We did BYO but the reception was so bad (Telstra) we couldn’t really use it. So, prepare to be off the grid and BYO books.

Location of the house was close to everything.

N/A - beautiful stay, enjoyed our time.