Guerneville Glamour! Modern Retreat~ Hot Tub, Pets

House was very clean and accommodating. Check in process smooth, owner very responsive. Unfortunately, the walls and floors are very thin, so would recommend going with a group that is all on the same sleep schedule. Otherwise, a lovely property.

I was so impressed with Jerry’s awesome communication, as well as the local hospitality manager, who checked in with me before we arrived and helped us access the house when the code to the door wasn’t working. The common space in the house (kitchen, dining room and living room) are AMAZING - open, comfortable, thoughtfully decorated and brightened by the natural light coming in from the beautiful windows. This helped create the perfect ambiance for my birthday weekend away w friends. The entire house is beautifully decorated throughout. The downsides are that the parking is pretty funky; there is one super narrow spot at the front of the house, and the other two spots are at the bottom of the house, up three floors of creaky wooden stairs. I sort of liked getting the extra steps, but it made unloading the cars tricky. The easiest way to access the house from these stairs is through bedrooms, which is also funky. If you have a large group and people are cool w people coming through their bedroom to get to the hot tub and parking, it’s fine. But if not you’d have to go up more steps to the street and then walk around to get into the house. So it’s a little awkwardly laid out. The reason I took off a star, however, is bc the master bedroom smells like mold, and there was mold growing in a few spots (shower curtain plus the other downstairs bathroom). We opened windows and aired out the house, but the smell lingered all weekend. Not a deal breaker but something to be aware of.

Overall stay was great. Narrow road and parking was a little bit of a challenge.

We stayed here for spring break and it was a great trip. We did run into a broken fridge while here but they got in a new one in 24 hours pretty seamlessly. We did have to go get ice and lost some food, but the overall experience could not have been avoided (it’s not their fault the fridge broke. I all say the location of the house is on a windy, one road street with quite a bit of stairs so you have to be comfortable with stairs and I would bring a baby gate for anyone under age three. Would be nice if the property had one there but prherwise it was a great stay!

Wow! We were surrounded by gorgeous redwoods! The location was central to all our sightseeing activities from the Pacific Ocean to Napa Valley. We all enjoyed the very comfortable mattresses. It was nice to have the washer and dryer. Our host was readily accessible. There was plenty of space for all nine of us.