This review was submitted before 2018 and has not been verified.
4/5 Good
Susanna T., Kent UK
22 Sept 2010
Overall good house for exploring mid California
This house is situated in an older part of town, with minutes away access to the Interstate.It was clean and prepared for our arrival. It is immediately evident that this a mature family home and not a permanent holiday home.
The outside area with its great pool and slide the photo doesn't show its full potential was a great hit especially with our daughters. Sun loungers or pool chairs would have been helpful.There is a covered eating area with 3 tables though only 5 mis-matched chairs,so 6 guests....? There was some broken items, suitcase and pool inflatable in this area which we removed to the side of the house and a previous guest had left cigarette butts in the gravel...Shame.
It has a large kitchen with lots of personal items in drawers and cupboards so finding basic items was a little challenging. The cooker had only 3 working rings and on 1 oven shelf.The TV lounge area was comfortable especially with 2 recliner chairs which were very popular!
The master bedroom had all its drawers empty and a section of the walk in wardrobe cleared , the 2 other guest bedrooms has very minimal storage space, so if you had 6 guests you would all need to use the master bedroom storage, as our daughters slept in 1 room and used the other bedroom as there 'dressing room' and the bed as their wardrobe and desk top as chest of drawer area for smaller items.A change of bed linen would have been helpful as we had to wash and return linen on same day. There was plenty of towels available for bath and pool. There was also a large supply of toilet paper , kitchen roll, tissues etc.
Up to date local tourist information would have been helpful at the house, even the address of the local tourist office especially as we travelled from the UK so the wireless Internet access was invaluable for sourcing out this information. We did visit San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, the great mall at Roseville,the Jelly Bean factory, swam with dolphins at Six Flags, Discovery Kingdom even the Capitol building in downtown Sacramento.
Dealing with the property manager prior to the holiday was very professional and smooth.Even though we had some delays exchanging money from UK to US banks, she was friendly, efficient and patient.Overall the house was in a good location for discovering mid California.