Condo was as pictured. Clean, comfortable well equipped. Located in quiet part of island. Waterfront, but water was quite a walk from condo. I was aware of this from reading other reviews and accepted it considering reasonable rate/night. I was not prepared for the beach and water being undesirable. The amount of seaweed was, ugh, so much! I envisioned setting up on the beach for the day and being able to leave our things on the beach while we had lunch back at the condo. I also envisioned hanging out at the beach into early evening and enjoying a swim before it got dark. We weren’t able to do this because I was so disgusted with the beach and water. We ended up going to Lover’s Key State Park and Sanibel Beaches, which were beautiful, and more of what I expected. I generally keep all beach stuff in the car, rather than lugging them up to condo day after day, so having to drive to a beach wasn’t horrible as everything was already stored in the car. However, had I known about the beach at this particular building , had I known I would have had to drive to the beach, I could have stayed just about anywhere else. I may have even chosen bayside. Maybe if I would have read more reviews, I would have known this very big, unknown, unspoken fact. Being even as close as 2 miles to Lover’s Key beach changed my whole idea of my plans. I couldn’t just go up to the condo for lunch or a nap. Getting to and from the beach now required a car ride, u loading the car, loading the stuff to tram, then doing it again to get back. It also included spending more $$$ on lunch there, or having to prepare lunches in advance and lugging it in coolers with us.
I chose this building because many buildings in this area had large swampy looking areas between the buildings and the beaches, this one didn’t, but I had no idea I wouldn’t want to use the beach or swim at this location.
The condo itself was perfectly fine. I was just very disappointed, and frankly, annoyed at the beach and water.