Sorry, there was no rating below 1 star...... I am a highly decorated US Army Officer with over 27 years of dedicated service and a licensed real estate inspector. We normally do not complain and we have stayed at numerous beach and beach view rental homes over the past 10 years and this was the worse by FAR. We stayed in the Ocean To Bay rental home in Heritage Shores. \r
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We had several problems ranging from dirty sheets, inadequate number of towels bath clothes, TV's not working, defective DVD player, missing blender, non-functional can opener, dirty dishes in dish washer, dirty utensils, dirty utensil drawers, loose decking boards, no bathrooms at public pools, inadequate hot water, hostile security guards, rude property managers (Don Baker), guest with glass bottles in swimming pools (security said it was OK????), numerous non-functional outlets at pool & club house, exposed wiring at club house perimeter, nails protruding from decking at club house and poor maintenance of pool/club house area. Forgive me, I may have omitted a few items, it is 2AM in the morning.\r
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This was by far the worse vacation experience we have ever had, do not go to Gulf Shores, do not use Reed Real Estate (Gulf Rentals) and definitely avoid Heritage Shores sub-division.\r
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