It was awful!! By far the worst experience I’ve ever had with VRBO. There has never been a more deceptive listing. No central AC in California in the middle of July in 2024!!! There was small window ac for one room and a box fan to cool the rest. When called to cancel upon arrival, owner wouldn’t even give me half a refund so we could find a hotel somewhere else. Open the windows, they said. Half didn’t open at all. We came for a family reunion in Redlands…17 min…plus steep grades, winding narrow roads and a 15 passenger van…equals total disaster on our transmission and brand new tires.
They had wool blankets on every bed, wool pillows and stocked firewood for their Swiss wood burning fireplace…it was 115 degrees in the mountains when we arrived and 125 in the house. No breeze from the mountain because the wind doesn’t blow from that direction. It blows over the house. I spent $250 on vans so my kids could sleep at night. One of my kids is still sick from the 5000 ft elevation we had to travel up and down everyday on top of the almost unrelenting heat in the house. At one point he was too sick to leave the house because the idea of driving on the winding roads was more nauseating than staying in the baking oven they call a rental.
It may be the perfect property for winter, except their 70% incline driveway wasn’t useable, the street is barely wide enough to park on and good luck if it snows, you’d never get out.
Save yourselves…there are better options anywhere!