Pros:
- Inside: Beds are comfortable, bathrooms are nice, kitchen is stocked for the most part (could use a crockpot and larger pans), AC worked well, and it just felt relaxing
- Outside: Saw elk and deer, very starry nights, amazing views, PLENTY to water activity (3 kayaks, 2-person boat, inflatables, etc), property was cool to drive through, and did catch small bluegill.
- Trey had great communication!!
Cons (and please read conclusion):
- A bunch of flies were in 2 of the bathroom toilets and I had to kill 30+ before not being bothered by the few left.
- Wasps and Hornets around the shaded seating. We killed some.
- Fish will bite you. I would say nip, but imagine a sharp pinch that in a couple cases left a welt. Each person had it happen to them about every 10-15 minutes. Some people didn't want to get in
-This goes along with the other point. After arriving, we found out the pond filled with water in 2020 and was freshly stocked. So fishing wasn't much fun. But it's these masses of baby fish with no predators that are biting.
- The pictures are a little deceiving. The rental is more like a duplex with the foreman staying in the other portion. There is a house across the bridge right off the path. Now idea how often people stay in that house, but there were people there during our stay. They did not interfere with our stay, we just could hear them talking outside, so we knew they could hear us too.
- All of the bedrooms face a portion of the driveway. There were multiple nights that the foreman would drive up this portion of the driveway between midnight and 3AM and wake some people up from his headlights in the windows. He does have the option to drive a different route.
- We ran out of internet. We did stream Netflix, Youtube, and played some online games, but had no idea running out of internet was a possibility with 3 days left in our stay.
These cons can be fixed. If the place is empty for awhile, it can be spot checked, wasps and hornets killed and nests sprayed, biting fish is going to take some years to have predators, state in the description you might not be alone on the property. I communicated this with Trey after the fact and he was very apologetic and I don't doubt he would have fixed it had we not already. They are working on getting StarLink for internet. I might not stay here again in the next year or 2, but after the fish get bigger, I would give it another try. Thanks for letting us stay, we do really appreciate it!