Siesta Sands Beach Resort

Siesta Sands is the top place to be during the Christmas season. Craig Hockenberry has been going here for 13 years! The people are amazing! The staff is so great. They help us with all of our needs and do the extra things that make a huge difference. Craig Hockenberry Craig Hockenberry

Paid top dollar to rent unit 612. Beautiful view but that’s where the good news ends. Bathrooms are old with barely functioning toilets and broken toilet paper dispenser. Fridge and freezer hardly work to point that our pricey groceries spoiled. Dishwasher is so crusty you can’t close soap dispenser. No beach towels, Kleenex, extra blankets or pillows or extra toilet paper or paper towels; just two tiny bars of soap (nothing for the shower) and a tiny dish soap bottle (but no sponge to clean dishes). Broken closet doors and chipped paint. Newish TVs but basic cable with no HD. The unit was dusty and dirty and desperately needs to be updated. Disappointed as this falls well below the Cunningham Property Management Corp. standards we expected. Endless ongoing construction after 5pm at the eye sore “mansion”(?) next door ruined a gorgeous sunset on our balcony. Shame.

First, allow me to say that being next door to the "mansion" requires nerves of steel and we are done with the noise that occurs every year (for the past 4 years), while we spend tons of money for peace and quiet you cannot imagine the loud machinery being utilized next door (multiple power washers, tile cutters, etc.) that make sitting out on the balcony and trying to relax impossible. Teams of workers begin showing up at 6 am, the machinery noise begins at 8 am and doesn't stop until after 4 pm. It literally makes sitting out on the balcony and enjoying the view impossible during the day. (Last year, the owner of the mansion decided to tear apart all of the pavers on the driveway and we dealt with jackhammers, dust, tile cutters, sometimes 4 pieces of equipment at the same time. There IS no peace and quiet at all. This year we dealt with that along with insufficient items in the unit (2 coffee cups and we had 4 people?), cabinets in our kitchen were never updated, not cleaned properly, damages in unit and property manager did not even respond to our message we left immediately upon entering the unit. Several days later I went in to the management office to follow up and the management staff told me I was being aggressive. (I asked why they thought my comments on the condition of the unit were aggressive - as that was certainly not my intent - and I was told that it was my body language). Very strange indeed. To her credit, she dropped off cups and dishes so that we could feed our guests. Still never hear from the property manager. The icing on the cake was the elevator outage that occurred on the day before we left. We were on the 6th floor and it remained out until the time we departed. My husband carried all of our items down 6 flights of stairs - which required about 10 trips. They did offer to send cleaning staff up to assist and my husband said they probably wouldn't show so we did not wait for their assistance. The real kicker is that the rental rates are skyrocketing next year. We won't be back. Ever.

I want to start off by saying this review and rating is for UNIT 608, not the entire Siesta Sands Resort. We walked in and the bones looked good. We had 4 adults (which included our two grown children ) and our 5 year old granddaughter. Our son was going to sleep on the pull out couch. We pulled out the bed and the mattress was flat and torn and the springs totally shot. Just sitting on both couches you sunk deep into the base and was uncomfortable and truthfully unusable. Nevertheless, my son had to sleep on the couch (not using it as a sleeper bed ) because there was no other choice. The second bedroom has a set of twin beds. My granddaughter and daughter slept in there. The two mattresses were horrible to sleep in. They are well past any useful service life. The master king mattress was ok. It was not flat. It was wavy where people slept on the bed for way too many years. The most comfortable place to sit was the dinning room chairs or the chairs on the deck. The kitchen had enough cooking pots/pans, utensils. However, you have to buy EVERYTHING else. (Salt pepper, napkins, nothing is left behind from the last people that used the unit. We have stayed at many VRBO units over the years and in all cases there would be a lot more basic items left behind for the next person. There were 2 rolls of toilet paper for each bathroom and one itty bitty soap bar that fell apart the first time you used it. This unit needs a major upgrade. Siesta Sands should NOT be advertising this unit for more than 4 people. A couple thousand dollars spent on bedding and a new couch would transform the unit. I would suggest they put the $3000 we spent for a week to that use. On the plus side is the location which is great.

Absolutely awful and unprofessional management! We arrived to our condo that was dirty, and trash still in all the trash cans. Our family had bed bugs in the master bedroom! It was handled wrong and they did nothing about it. Never stay here!