Venice, Florida
Sandcastle Cottage is a cozy one story open floor plan 2 bedroom single family home located only minutes away from popular Sharky`s and Fin's restaurants and the Venice Fishing Pier. The closest beach, Manasota Beach, is only 4 minutes away on popular Manasota Key.
It features two bedrooms and two baths with a tile floor, breakfast bar that seats three and pub table that seats two. There is also a screened lanai in the private back yard for enjoying meals outside free from insects.
Provided are many amenities to make your vacation relaxing, including beach chairs, beach umbrella, shark's tooth strainer, beach cruiser bicycles and beach toys - everything you need to make this your home away from home.
Proximity to the Gulf of Mexico brings almost constant breezes to this adorable home. Throw open all the windows and the French door to the screened patio and enjoy the fresh ocean air!
Visit beautiful Venice Island only 15 minutes north. shop, eat and enjoy the many wonderful activities only minutes away, including the Venice Rookery where you can see Bald Eagles and other exotic large birds, the weekly Venice Farmer's Market, Warm Mineral Springs or travel 25 minutes north to Sarasota for the Mote Marine Aquarium or Myakka River Park where you can see alligators in their natural habitat from an air boat.
Venice, Florida is known as the 'shark's tooth capital of the world' and your vacation paradise is minutes from Caspersen Beach where you can scoop shark's teeth right out of the shallows.
The master bedroom features a comfortable King size bed and the master bathroom has a bath tub and shower. Feel extra pampered after your shower with the plush spa towels and waffle cotton spa robe provided for you during your stay.
The second bedroom includes a Queen sized bed and a roomy closet for all of those new “shark's tooth capital” t-shirts. Also available is a second bathroom with walk-in shower for washing off the beach sand when you get home.
The living room lets you sit back and relax between all of that hard work of laying on the beach and features a large HD TV with loads of HD cable channels and the ability for recording your favorite shows while you are out. It also features super fast FIOS wireless Internet access (free WiFi) for seamless Internet content streaming.
Enjoy a little coffee or tea at the shaded patio table in the screened lanai. The back patio invites you to cook on the propane grill and dine outside while enjoying the Florida sunshine or comfortable nights under the palm trees while being serenaded by tree frogs, birds and crickets.
The kitchen is fully stocked with pots, pans, gadgets and updated appliances – including dishwasher. Also included are basic spices, coffee and sugar to get you started.
Next to the kitchen is a full laundry room with washer and dryer for drying those wet bathing suits, washing those towels you were sitting on at the beach or getting your clothes cleaned of one adventure and ready for the next.
Sandcastle Cottage has ceiling fans throughout. Also for your convenience is a garage with inside entrance to the house and an automatic garage door opener is provided for your use.
Nearby is a heated outdoor Olympic pool at the Venice YMCA which has great daily, weekly or monthly rates to use the entire facility.
The back yard is fully fenced so no need to have to walk the dog several times a day - although you probably won't mind strolling around the lovely quiet neighborhood.
We use a keyless entry for easy and secure access to the house. There are no cleaning people or contractors who will have a key to the house. As the property owners, we respect your privacy and value your security.
Venice is a very beautiful and laid back city and you're sure to meet other friendly people biking and walking as you take a stroll or walk your dog. The local area has several dog parks and a dog beach in downtown Venice where your pooch can run free.
We now sanitize guest handled items such as TV remotes, garage opener, door knobs and light switches for added safety.
They had such beautiful furniture, Nice back yard,All in all they have a beautiful piece of property
I wanted a fenced in yard for my dog and this place has a very large back yard which my dog very much enjoyed.
A dingy property in a not great area. Bathroom tiny and very sub-standard (no wonder there are no photos). Window / door frames full of ingrained grime. Bedroom very sparse with no headboard and bed directly under a dark dirty window. Backyard is a joke - very dark and bare, so unusable. Owner gone off the radar the minute I sent an email, despite constant messages before arriving. We only stayed 30 mins and then left - glad to get out of it.
Greatly appreciated staying at the Sandcastle Cottage in Venice! The property was clean, the beds were very comfortable and we appreciated the extras like robes, beach towels, easy wifi access and snacks etc! The owner provided excellent communication in regards to check in and out. Thank you!
This was paradise! Clean, clean and clean. Dan has all the amenities that you ever need. It’s fully privacy fenced, beautiful lawn and flowers. It has a fully equipped kitchen and two bathrooms with fluffy towels, robes and slippers in each room. The furniture is elegant and stylish. Just beautiful!
The property was as listed . An older home . Seemed to be well kept. It suited my needs .
Enjoyed the stay. Property was awesome. Would you like to sell it??
The location was convenient for S Venice beaches. Beds comfortable. Neighborhood was sketchy. The home was filthy.Toilets took 3 days of scrubbing to get clean. Had to use the chemicals they provided for water system. Provided filthy mop that just pushed dirt around. Kitchen poorly furnished especially glasses and bowls,no cutting board. Overall feeling was landlord must not ever check the property.Way over priced for what we got. Embarrassed for our guests. One umbrella broken. We had large dog so needed back yard, which was adequate. Overall we were very disappointed. Property old and dated.
First time vrbo user and was happy to see property is as described. Perfect place for us to wait out our last two weeks of rebuild on home damage from hurricane Ian. Very responsive owners. Easy check in.
Enjoyed the home and fenced back yard for our dog. Very convenient location to shopping and restaurants. Would stay here again. Very responsive owners, professional, friendly and helpful.
Very clean. Near everything and plenty of beaches to choose from. Disappointed the Ferry doesn't allow guests to utilize them, especially since it is still on their website guests may buy 1 week passes. They should honor their advertisement and quickly update it .. we came specifically for that each. I would encourage you to remove the ferry pass from your add as-well. All in all we had a wonderful vacation. Owners very prompt in answering questions. Slept like a baby in the beds. Highly recommend
Great location easy access to beaches shopping and entertainment.
We encountered both good and bad things in the house. It was clean upon our arrival, and well set up for a party our size. The washer and dryer worked well, and the kitchen was well appointed. We appreciated the location of the house and it’s proximity to the dog beach and wonderful restaurants. We also found some problems. The back yard is no way like the ones in VRBO promotional pictures. Everything is overgrown and out of control. Plants are growing in the gutters, in both front and back. While the front is covered in grass, the back has only sporadic blades in spots. For the most part the ground covers in the back were sandy dark dirt or inches of leaves fallen from the trees. The trees and palms were overgrown, covering the entire area in shade creating the dirty sand covering the floors inside the house shortly after our arrival. We were enticed by the beautiful green lawns in the promotional pictures which were perfect for our dogs, but it didn’t exist. While the TV set up was OK once figured out, it was complicated and set up only for selected channels. Overall our stay was nice, but the house was disappointing.
This property was just what we needed. We have family who lives in South Venice and we were there most the week. But it was nice to go to our own place to sleep. Clean, Comfortable and a fence yard for our Pickle (dog). We had no problems. Love the extra slippers! Thank you for letting us stay in your home.