Let me start with the condo was fine. Well stocked, updated, clean. It’s at the end of a canal, so the view is what it is. But all in all a nice place.
The problem is the management company, Padre Escapes. We travel with our dogs. I booked this condo in July (traveled in September). I put in we have two dogs, looked at the rate, paid the booking with VRBO just like I have 100 times in the past.
Twenty Four hours before we are to check in I get a text and email from Padre Escapes requiring I sign an additional rental agreement and now have a TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLAR pet fee. If I did not sign, they would not release the condo to me. VRBO said that because the fee is listed (buried at the bottom of their listing) we had no recourse. If I canceled I was out the full reservation fee. I did not have time to board my dogs. Even though the reservation was two months old this was all done last minute so I had no option but to pay almost half again what my rental cost was. They did do me the ‘favor’ of cutting it in half. Very considerate of them.
I got scammed. I will not not rent any property managed by Padre Escapes again, and I would suggest owners stop using them as well. I rent a condo in Arkansas and I use a management company. I would be LIVID if I knew this was how they treated people.
Cute place. Buyer beware.