The positive: location to the beach and privacy couldn’t be better. The normal bed mattresses and carpet look newer.
The negative: the sofa bed was broken and unusable, as well as the mattress being old, beat up, and the mattress cover stained, threadbare, and dirty. I contacted Vacasa and they suggested I go buy an air mattress for the property and they would reimburse me.
Doing that, I needed to move a dresser in the loft to make space for the air mattress and discovered what I believe to be the traces of a prior bug infestation, but cannot be sure (perhaps that explains the new carpet and mattresses). I do know that there were random black specks in the kitchen pantries and shelving that resembled coffee grounds, which is what cockroach feces looks like.
Also, the mattress cover on the loft bed was stained and there was something dried into the carpet next to the bed. It looked like dried vomit or spit up, but could have been something else (I didn’t get close enough to decide).
The bottom foot of the walls in the downstairs bedroom were lined with mold and the in-wall heater grates in the bedroom and bathroom were caked in dirt and mold.
The shower is only usable 30 seconds at a time before water comes backing up out of the drain, bringing up with it whatever is down in the pipes. I found I could shower by getting wet, turning off the water so the drain could clear and soaping up during that time, then turning in the water for another 20-30 seconds before the water backed up again - repeating this process several times until rinsed. Definitely not a nice showering experience. I didn’t contact Vacasa about this because the “local team” that Vacasa said was reviewing the other things never bothered to contact me or reach out or anything, so I just gave up and figured out how to make the stay work for my family since everything else was booked up in town.
Overall, I would love to stay at the Alpine Chalets again, IF things were cleaned up, working properly, and an exterminator came through. The location is great, but the stress from everything else and the hassle of not wanting to bring my luggage inside the house now that I’m home for fear of bringing in uninvited guests or their eggs is a major bummer.