We had a 25ft. SeeVee (yes, we were aware of the flats/oyster beds/etc, we are river basin flats kind of people) , but had no idea that the boast house belts/pulleys were broken and our offshore boat would be sitting on its side 1/4 of the trip, making us house ridden. If we were made aware, we would have brought one of our flats boats (we have 8 boats). Also, the refrigerator was poor in that it barely keep food cool, the bedroom with the TV (the only bedroom with a TV), was so hot, it was almost unbearable to sleep in. If a house sleeps 12, you assume that there are more then 2 TV's, and that the air conditioning works in all the rooms. I had to keep the windows open and a fan in the hallway to keep the cool air circulating, which was still almost unbearable. As we have 4 kids and didn't want to have to watch Nickelodeon the whole time, so this was an issue. Also, the closet full grocery store was 1 1/2 hours round trip drive. That was not pleasant either. The closet boat bound restaurant is in Steinahatchie ( about a 30-40 min boat ride). We are used to the FL Keys where you can pull up in a multitude of places to eat, this forced me to have to be home cooking and preparing meals everyday of my birthday vacation. Per the neighbors, the restaurants blew down in last year's storm season. No cell service is available except for Verizon, I can see that being an issue for a lot of people. The house itself was clean, quaint, cute and had all kitchenware, etc.. Beautiful house, porch swing, a grill, hammock. The whole yard was sand, which I made it extremely hard to keep up on the floors. We weren't able to tube, and thank goodness we brought all of our water boots, or our kids wouldn't have even been able to kayak. We will be staying closer to the marina the next go round with immediate channel access. If you don't care about going diving/fishing offshore, or bring an airboat/flats boat, don't have kids that require TV, and buy ALL of your food/toiletries in advance, it's a great place. The neighbors were all totally awesome, the dock and fish cleaning station was awesome and there is adequate room to park a trailer at the house. Great water pressure and nice hot water were a bonus. Also, there are more blue crabs than you could ever imagine. On the house bound days, we decided to chicken neck and fishing line it with our nets and made a crab boil.