This is a well maintained and renovated house with a "shore cottage" feel. The rooms are not large, but renovated or new and very well maintained. Unlike other listings, this house sleeps up to 6 (when renting first floor) and 8-9 in beds (when renting the 4 BR house) not on floor or sleeper sofas like most places. There are no sofa beds nor is there extra floor space for more people...but there are 3 or 4 bedrooms and beds for the amount of people allowed
First floor:
The Family Room provides a great place to come together as a family, play board games or watch a movie on the wall-mounted LED TV with a DVD player with a library of movies. It has LVP wood floors and new comfortable sofas this year. It is bright from the 9-foot sliding door leading to the screened front porch.
The screened front porch is great for reading the morning paper before others rise. It has a small table plus a wicker loveseat and chair. At night you can hear the ocean waves in the distance when there is an ocean breeze.
“Ocean Breeze” Bedroom 1 is in the front corner and has a Queen mattress. It has double windows on the front and a single window on the side. There is a wonderful cross breeze and sounds of the ocean in the distance when the weather is moderate and the AC is off. Also, a full-size armoire for storage.
“Palm Plantation” Bedroom is the master bedroom in the rear left corner. Light and bright with a Queen mattress and wall-mounted LED TV – plus an attached half bathroom.
“Kids Hideout” Bedroom is where the kids sleep, as I did during the 1960s! Twin over twin bunk bed with stairs plus single bed (keep your suitcases on upper bunk if you don’t want your children to use it.) Nice big double window overlooking the big backyard plus a big armoire to hang clothes or put them in drawers.
The full bathroom has a double sink vanity, brightened by a window, and complete with a tub/shower. Next to it is a stacked washer dryer if you really want to do laundry while on vacation but most people just bring enough clothes.
The kitchen has bright white cabinets and a neat refurbished butcher block table that seats 8+. The adjacent dry bar seats another 2 with dry storage below. The kitchen has double windows on the side and another 9-foot slider, opening to the big back deck.
Outside: The back deck is where you’ll want to hang out before going to dinner, with its large table and umbrella. Wide stairs off the deck open up to the big backyard where the kids can play. A beach cart/wagon to tote the provided beach chairs and umbrella. When you return from the beach, you’ll enjoy a full hot and cold enclosed shower. We provide beach buckets in each room to carry your shower supplies to alfresco showering. The charcoal grill is ready for an old-fashioned cookout – perhaps while sitting back having a beverage as the kids enjoy the private backyard for playing soccer, lacrosse, horseshoes, or more. Bring your bikes and chain them up to the clothes pole when you’re not exploring Cape May.
Second floor:
Our 4 bedroom beach house includes an additional bedroom upstairs, with a full bath upstairs, facing the rear yard. “Lighthouse Room” – a mini-suite because it is similar to a lighthouse, being that it is at the top! Moderate in size, but cozy with its own full bathroom, Queen- size bed, and wall-mounted LED TV. Note that there is a lock-out section in the rest of 2nd floor, including 2nd floor front porch which is not accessible to renters.
Convenient location.
See the aerial shot of Cape May. The yellow push pin at the upper right shows where the house is relative to the beach - You pass by 6 houses and a hotel on walk to beach. (2 houses on each block going toward the beach) Historic/shopping district is the push pin to the upper left (5-7 blocks). Boardwalk shops/Convention Hall is push pin at bottom left. Boardwalk starts at push pin at bottom right.
Clean and well-maintained
You are renting from the owner, not a realtor or big business. This is our shore house and it has been in my family since I was a little kid staying there with my Grandparents.
We do a lot of work each year to keep it very well maintained, which is somewhat unusual for beach rentals and even hotels at the shore.
The house has a "shore cottage" feel. It was a one-floor cottage until 2004 when we renovated it and added the 2nd floor. We intentionally kept the 1st floor true to the original cottage feel, except we updated it. Therefore, it is cozy, not massive.
Nice yard. Ample free parking.
Nice rear yard for kids to play or adults to relax. Rear deck now has new deck furniture and umbrella. Front porch is now screened.
The usual people that rent the house as the 1st floor are families of 4-6, or couples that want room to spread out or have their kids down for a few days. When people rent it with the extra bedroom suite upstairs, it is often a 2nd family or grandparents in the mix.
Hope that helps! :)
I know it isn't easy comparing houses to rent...they're all so different and hard to tell how nice they are inside...I know because I check out other places to make sure our rates are fair.
Why Cape May?
Cape May is the oldest seaside resort in the nation. Beyond just top-rated beaches, you'll stroll by Victorian architecture and enjoy boutique shopping, the best restaurants, historic tours, watersports, fishing and more - all without leaving our tiny island resort town. There is something for everyone in Cape May!