Great location between Bean Point, beaches and groceries! Home is exactly as pictured, pool was nice. Golf cart is the way to go, if bringing your own know that you must have seatbelts - we were ticketed first day (we were unaware of this law being from SC). We enjoyed AMI BUT we found the further south toward LongBoat Key and Sarasota the friendlier the people. We loved the Bridge Street area of Bradenton and Coquina Beach - much more southern hospitality. Bean Point is gorgeous, Poppo’s Taquiria was so good, Blue Marlin was amazing, grouper tacos at Ugly Grouper (share with someone), Harry’s Grill at 5pm for prime rib (no later they sell out in 1 hour), Ginny’s & Jane E’s for breakfast and coffee (walking distance or golf cart from house), The Donut Experience was like Duck Donuts, and the Shiny Fish Emporium for sand dollar painting. The house has beach chairs, umbrellas and bikes but if you spend a lot of time of beach take your comfy beach chairs and take your tent or beach shade, we have a Shibumi and it worked great. We rented a boat on our last day and we circled the island, visiting Passage Key and Jewfish Key; we ate at the Anna Maria Oyster Bar on the pier (recommended). Don’t rent the boat with a 40HP, go ahead and get the 150hp or better. Beautiful beaches and sunsets but overall the people are not friendly on AMI, we had a great time with the home overall!
