Beach Villa Steps to Vilano Beach with Heated Pool and Pool House, Sleeps 16

The beach villa is located on a side street with very little traffic, but also still very close to everything you need. Even though we visited in the summer, beach was not crowded. Publix and some restaurants close by, with all of the St. Augustine activities only 10 min away. Less than 5 min (easy) walk to the beach. Nice community playground area across the street with swings and playset/slides. The pool is completely enclosed with 2 gates that latch at the top, making it safe for your little ones. We had 3 under the age of 5 and never felt like their safety was challenged. Plenty of pool towels provided. Kitchen has ample cookware, glasses and dishes if eating in is your style. Plenty of seating at dining room table and kitchen counter. Washer and dryer were a huge help to keep towels ready for next pool trip. Beds were very comfortable, with good closet space to store luggage and other items. Host provided several children accessories - portacrib, high chair and bed rail for bunk bed room (which is super cute!). Pool house offered extra space for family with lots of little one stuff. Game room upstairs in main house provided some extra family fun. One of the best things about this property is the host. VERY responsive and handled all questions/minor issues so promptly. You could tell she sincerely cared about making sure your stay was the best possible.Would definitely stay here again when visiting the St. Augustine area.

Great location and host was very responsive. We had a great time.

The property is beautiful and in a peaceful setting a block from the beach. There is a park across the street [secluded by trees] for kids to have another place to play other than at the beach or in the perfect kid sized pool. There is a small Sheriff substation across the street for an added sense of a very safe community. The neighborhood is quiet, with lovely people occasionally walking amazing dogs. Close to most everything and yet far enough away to feel particularly tranquil. The pool is fenced, which was a selling point for us as we have two young grandchildren who think that they are much better swimmers than they truly are. There were plenty of beach towels, dishes to accommodate a huge group, and very comfortable beds. The washer and dryer allowed from lighter packing that the kids mom's appreciated. The back house was a god send as 6 weeks before the trip, I broke my back and had surgery. I got rest away from the little ones and it had a refrigerator and coffee machine. The early mornings on the porches of the big house and the back house provided some life enriching cuddles with our grandchildren. I cannot recommend this property more highly.

The positives: Having the pool and hot tub heated was amazing. The weather was crummy but we were able to use the hot tub every day. The hosts were great communicators and very responsive. The house had a nice kitchen and bathrooms, but the furniture (the couches in the main living space) were terrible. The house was nice but lacked a few amenities we would expect, like soap for the showers, wine glasses, coffee cups in the guest house, extra towels, etc. The guest we arrived with felt the sheets were not clean and all washed their sheets prior to use - there was visible hair on the beds and black specs. We had issues with the access - having to get every guest to download an app to open the doors was a pain as the front keypad kept falling off.

Overall a good experience. There are three things I would have liked to know before booking the house:1. This host requires all appliances to be clean at checkout;2. The host requires an app to access the house, note that we were able to come to a workaround, but I would prefer to not have to download an app that I am uncertain about the privacy elements of to access a vacation rental;3. There are at least 5 exterior cameras at the property including two directed at the pool area- one of those is also pointed toward the main house’s sliding glass window. I am highly sensitive to my family’s privacy, and I think that it is important to hold all hosts to a standard that doesn’t allow for an uncomfortable level of intrusiveness.

The Home was very spacious had everything you would need to feel like home away from home. Our Host was very responsive !! We will book again.

Amazing property and host! Would absolutely stay again.

The home fit all of our needs and the location was amazing. Communication from the host was great! We would definitely stay here again.

Beautiful home and just a couple minutes walk to the beach!! Owner was very quick to reply to any questions we had during our stay. We truly enjoyed our stay!

We stayed here with a large group (10 adults and 3 kids) and absolutely loved our time! The house was perfect for what we needed—spacious, comfortable, and close to everything. Technically you could walk to the beach, but with little ones it was much easier to drive. Thankfully, there’s a super convenient free parking lot right by the beach access, less than a 2-minute drive away.The pool and spa were wonderful for when we just wanted to relax and enjoy being outside without leaving the house. The separate pool house was also the perfect size and gave us extra space, which worked out great for our group.The host was fantastic—quick to respond to any questions and very kind. We couldn’t have asked for a better experience and would definitely stay here again!

Everything was great. We had a small issue and the landlord had great communication.

The property was beautiful. Convenience to the beach, restaurants, and grocery stores was phenomenal. Host was superb - never left me on read, answered all questions timely, and made their home feel like ours during the rental. We had 16 people - 8 adults and 8 children - plenty of space. There only noteworthy issues were the sliding door being extremely difficult to completely shut (especially for kids) and the cleaning company. The first night 2 of the 5 families had to remove hair from the sheets, strip them, and wash them. The issues were brought to the hosts attention, and we hope they are addressed for the next guests. Oddly enough, the response was not apologetic and simply pushed blame to the cleaning company. To an extent, I understand. Regardless, I’d still recommend this place as the positives outweigh the couple negatives.

We were really excited to stay at this home which was very nice but we booked it because of the spa and pool. We had limited time with family we hadn’t seen in a while and wanted to relax in the spa and pool. When I tried to turn the spa on it wasn’t working and I messaged the owner thru vrbo app and after a while that day she got back to me and said oh I have to trigger it from my app because it isn’t working from main controls. She said pool tech coming to fix it the next day. The tech came and we got no follow up on if it was working. We tried to turn it on and wasn’t working, messaged her and eventually she turned it on but Not when we wanted to use it. The next day I asked her to turn it on and never heard anything until hours later she replied and said oh I wasn’t by my app and next time here is my cell to just text me directly. Well by this time our stay was almost over and we paid over 1000 a day and never got to use the spa when we wanted even though it worked. We ended up leaving a day earlier completely over the unresponsiveness. I ended up feeling she just didn’t want us to use it. If you book this house for just for the house then all good but Not if you want to use the spa.

The property was ideal for our family group of 10. Conveniently located for easy access to downtown St. Augustine and the beach. We had a great time!

The location was perfect- short walk to beach, park across the street, close to a grocery store, easy drive into St Augustine and restaurants. The accommodations of the property met all the needs of our family of 14!