Except for the house across the street from the airport. The jerk running that screwed us on our trip. Beware what you might get in trying to save and rent your own house. I wish it would have worked out, but instead:
- house across from the airport rather than the sedate location they portray on the website. Plane literally flies over the house on the landing run. You smell AV fuel at the house because the plane sits there with the engines running while disembarking/re-embarking
- the house is just right next to the next house, tract style. Again, not the paradise described by them
- everybody has a dog next door and "your own private beach" is open to the them all, so they were up at 6 AM every morning running around barking on "your" beach.
- There is a diesel generator literally in the front yard which runs from 6 AM to 11 PM.
- The house is sort of on a point which sticks out and so is more exposed to the storms which come by meaning other places are OK, but it is raining like hell at your place. Horizontal rain. I had it for 6 of 9 days.
- the "snorkeling" in front of the house which I rented the place to get is pretty non-existent. The tide goes out in the morning leaving shin deep water all the way out to the reef line which is shielded by staghorn coral preventing you from getting past to swim. During the day, the locals are out walking around literally on the shallow coral heads pulling whatever they can find. When the tide comes back in, the water is very murky with lots of sediment mixed in. Which makes it difficult to see the beautiful sea snakes which inhabit the local area. Very cool but not something to step on.
- The idiot lady who is supposed to take care of the place and cook can't cook anything besides basic rice and fried pork chop or fish and won't do anything else to help you. We had to go next store at 11 PM to find someone to call a cab to take us to the 3rd world hospital when I got sick.
- The bed was rock hard and l literally got bruises on my hips from the bed.
- The houses in the area all had roosters which began crowing at, I can tell you because I woke up every single day, 5:30 AM. And crowed every 2 minutes from then on. I expected country but you can not get back to sleep with that continuous noise. And remember that the dogs come out and then the generator comes on...and then the flights start coming in....
- The best part was it had a beautiful deck which was useless in the horizontal rain we got for 6 straight days. The beach was down the backyard about 30 feet away. Rain would come through and white out the beach so we couldn't see it from the house.
- On day 2 of rain, the house started to leak. Onto the furniture and bed. Looked like a beautiful wood place but it started leaking all over and we had to push all the furniture around to keep it dry for somewhere to sit. New leaks would start and we had to move the furniture again until there weren't any places left. With no TV or radio, the way I wanted it for our trip away, we were now there for multiple days with no way to tell what weather would be and nothing to do because the weather was bad outside and everywhere was a torrent so hikes, etc were very difficult.
The sailboat charter we did afterwards was night and day better.
Hope your experience was better than mine.
