The ideal Kelleys Island family vacation rental

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A stone building with a red door, surrounded by trees and a fire pit area with benches.
A stone building with a symmetrical facade, multiple windows, and a central entrance.
A living room with a sofa, patterned chairs, a coffee table, and a television.
A living room with a sofa, two armchairs, a coffee table, and a ceiling fan. There are two windows with blinds, a lamp, and a welcome mat near the door.
A modern kitchen with wooden cabinets, a central island with bar stools, a white refrigerator, and a black trash bin.

Reviews

9.2 out of 10
Wonderful

Highlights

  • Spacious, comfortable rooms
    Guests love the top-rated, generously-sized rooms.
  • Firepit available
    One of the few properties with a dedicated outdoor firepit.
  • Discover nearby landmarks
    Walk to Lake Erie

Popular amenities

  • Patio
  • Toys
  • Barbecue
  • Air-conditioning
  • Refrigerator
  • Washing machine

Explore the area

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Kelleys Island, OH
  • Place, Kelleys Island Library
    ‪1 min walk‬
  • Place, Kelleys Island State Park Public Beach
    ‪12 min walk‬
  • Place, Glacial Grooves State Monument
    ‪16 min walk‬

Rooms & beds

3 bedrooms (sleeps 10)

Bedroom #2

2 Single Beds and 1 Double Bed

Bedroom #3

1 Single Bunk Bed and 1 Double Bed

Family Room

1 Double Futon

Master Bedroom

1 King Bed and 1 Single Bunk Bed

2 bathrooms, 1 half bathroom

First Floor Powder Room

Toilet

Master Bathroom

Bathtub or shower · Toilet

Upstairs Bathroom

Bathtub or shower · Toilet

Spaces

Deck or patio
Kitchen
Separate dining area
Garden

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About the area

Kelleys Island

Located in Kelleys Island, this cottage is near theme parks. Inscription Rock and Marblehead Lighthouse are local landmarks, and some of the area's activities can be experienced at Seaway Marina and Island Adventures Family Fun Center. Looking to enjoy an event or a game while in town? See what's happening at Sandusky Speedway or Cedar Point Sports Center. Discover the area's water adventures with jet skiing and kayaking nearby, or enjoy the great outdoors with hiking and ecotours.
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Kelleys Island, OH

What's nearby

  • Kelleys Island Library - 1 min walk - 0.1 km
  • Kelleys Island State Park Public Beach - 12 min walk - 1.0 km
  • Glacial Grooves State Monument - 16 min walk - 1.3 km
  • Caddy Shack Square - 3 min drive - 1.8 km
  • Inscription Rock - 3 min drive - 2.1 km

Getting around

  • Sandusky Station - 53 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Netty's - ‬42 min drive
  • ‪Kelley's Island Wine Co - ‬4 min drive
  • ‪West Bay Inn - ‬5 min drive
  • ‪Camp Runinmuck - ‬45 min drive
  • ‪The Wave at Marblehead - ‬42 min drive

Frequently asked questions

Is The ideal Kelleys Island family vacation rental pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much does it cost to stay at The ideal Kelleys Island family vacation rental?

As of 13 Nov 2026, prices found for a 1-night stay for 2 adults at The ideal Kelleys Island family vacation rental on 3 Oct 2027 start from NZ$2,576, including taxes and fees. This price is based on the lowest nightly price found in the last 24 hours for stays in the next 30 days. Prices are subject to change. Choose your dates for more accurate prices.

How much is parking at The ideal Kelleys Island family vacation rental?

On-site parking is available at the property.

What time is check-in at The ideal Kelleys Island family vacation rental?

Check-in begins at 4:00 PM.

What time is check-out at The ideal Kelleys Island family vacation rental?

Checkout is at 10:00 AM.

Where is The ideal Kelleys Island family vacation rental located?

Situated in Kelleys Island, this cottage is within a 10-minute walk of Kelleys Island Library and North Pond State Nature Preserve. Kelleys Island Historical Association Museum and North Pond Barrier Beach are also within 15 minutes.

Reviews

9.2

Wonderful

Reviews are presented in chronological order, subject to a moderation process, and verified unless otherwise labelled.
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Rating 10 - Excellent. 31 out of 52 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 18 out of 52 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 3 out of 52 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 0 out of 52 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 0 out of 52 reviews

8.8/10

Cleanliness

10/10

Check-in

9.6/10

Communication

9.8/10

Location

9.8/10

Listing accuracy

Reviews

Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Fishing group

Greatest place to stay on the Island, driveway across from library, easy parking for 3 large boats. Would stay here every time if available.
Stayed 9 nights in Apr 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Nicely secluded and shady

Family friendly inside space.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2024
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Check-in, communication, listing accuracy

Great place for our fishing group.

Good
Stayed 7 nights in May 2023
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Fishing trip

Overall, nice stay for 6 adults/3 couples. Could use a little more gravel in the driveway, it got a little muddy.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2025
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Very nice house. Each room has individual ac units. Kitchen and living room layout are perfect for large family. Owner was super responsive during booking process.
Stayed 6 nights in Aug 2025
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
The property and the house was nice. The driveway was steep but we could fit everyone's truck and boat. Lots of beds, but they were hard. We did have to look for flat sheets and found them in the dryer. Make sure you plan time to take the garbage to the transfer station and be ready to pay for it. The host responded quickly when I had a question. They did have several games and the fire pit was nice to have.
Stayed 5 nights in May 2026
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Fishing Trip

Fishing was good
Stayed 5 nights in Apr 2023
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

We had an excellent time. The house was very nice

Excellent Missed bringing our own trash bags and paper products ... don’t recall seeing that in instructions before.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2021
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
It’s a very beautiful large property roomie. However, the appliances definitely need to be updated. Took me over an hour to bake a cake and the toaster only works on one side, but other than that it was beautiful.
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

21st annual family reunion- expanded!

We LOVE Kelley’s Island and have been coming yearly for over 20 years. As the family has grown us “kids” now have spouses etc and so there was a need for more room. This house is absolutely perfect. Great space, perfect location, adorable back deck for relaxing and a lovely kitchen for anything you need. We’ll be back!- highly recommend and great host communication.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2024
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location

Love Kelley’s Island

Overall house was great. Wonderfully stocked kitchen and house was clean and super nice. We had 2 concerns one being no internet consistently. Definitely don’t recommend this house if internet or work is important. Window and room air conditioners did not cool house down. Very disappointing in temperature. Master bedroom the hottest of the 3 bedrooms and one window air conditioner for entire downstairs makes no sense.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2025
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Liked: Check-in, location
Disliked: Cleanliness
Very spacious and great location but the sheets and blankets were not on the beds we had to go find them. The grill was never cleaned after the last person. There was bugs all over the inside of the house. Black mold in the window seal. The dish washer was full and never put away. The washer had wet stuff in it when we got there. The house is beautiful but definitely needs a good cleaning. Check out online states check the paper out but when we were in process of getting trucks packed we were getting yelled at by a lady because we apparently suppose to be out by 10 but the paper said noon.
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2025
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, listing accuracy

Our visit

We stayed here last year, location was decent and the house is roomy and like the fact that there are many beds. The kitchen sink drained very slowly on the right (garbage disposal side) it also backed up when we ran the dishwasher then went down. The dishwasher did not seem to wash the dishes very well. Also it seemed like something was leaking down below, a couple of things were wet but not real bad. The TV remote was no where to be found, used the one from the upstairs which turned on two tv’s so we just unplugged the one up in the bedroom. The air conditioning unit in the one bedroom was not hooked up to the exhaust out the window, would not stay so we duct taped it. We left an air fryer for the house, my daughter brought it and decided not to take it home. Both keys are where they were when we got ther, thanks hug gyy
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2023
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Nice place

We have stayed here once before it is a nice place but it isn’t as well maintained as it was the last time we stayed. There were bulbs out, dishes weren’t put away, there were starburst wrappers under one of the beds, and leg on one of the chairs was about to give out. When you stay you are supposed to take your trash to the dump, the outside trash was full already when we arrived so we didn’t have an outside trash can to use. We just put our trash in the back of the truck throughout the week, but if we hadn’t had a truck it would’ve been a problem. The place was still comfortable and we all had a great time. It was just inconvenient to have to pick up when we’re trying to get settled in. The members of my party using the main bathroom upstairs were having issues getting hot water as well, so they just showered in the other shower in our room. There were minor inconveniences overall which the year prior we had none of with this property so I gave it a 4 instead of a 5. The place was still beautiful and in a great location and it had everything we needed to spend a few days on the island.
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2022
Response from VrboOwner on 5 Mar 2023
Nicole - Thank you for your feedback. We value your input and apologize for the inconvenience. Trash left behind is completely unacceptable. Please note that we have hired a new professional cleaning service for the 2023 season and are extremely confident that this will address any and all issues around cleanliness. As for light bulbs and the broken chair we will continue to evaluate ways to address these issues in between guest stays to enhance our guest experience moving forward.
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Needs some upgrades

Needs some loving care. Housekeeping not done well. Fans in both bathrooms did not work and beds were not put together. Overall bedding and towels were messy. Mattresses were not comfortable.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2022
Response from VrboOwner on 5 Mar 2023
Thank you for your valuable feedback. For 2023 we have hired a new professional cleaning service and are confident it will address these issues moving forward. The comfort of our guests is of the utmost of importance and we will evaluate the mattresses and replace where necessary. Fans have both been replaced in both bathrooms.
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Family Vaca

Spacious with everything you need for a wonderful Family Vacation.
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2022
Response from VrboOwner on 5 Mar 2023
Thank you and we are extremely grateful that you enjoyed your stay. Look forward to seeing you again soon!!
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

I have been coming to Kelleys all my life, we have family there.

This was the first year staying at this house. Was very roomy and beds for everyone was very nice. Location was good also. However, the kitchen/dining area did not have good lighting. The upstairs bathroom the water did not get hot. The master bathroom was fine for the water, didn’t understand that. The towel bars in the bathrooms fell off, could not hang a towel on them. My husband did a little fixing on the one in the master bathroom. He also fix the latch on the bedroom door, minor fixes. He’s a carpenter. We enjoyed our stay very much. As you know you have an ant problem. Again, minor.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2022
Response from VrboOwner on 5 Mar 2023
Thank you for your valuable feedback. We hired a plumber to service the hot water tank and it works much better now. Bath accessories have been fixed / replaced. We do have a professional service spray the premise for bugs 4 times per year. We will work with them to address the ant concerns. Again thank you for feedback, we rely on constructive comments to make improvements every year to provide a better experience to all.
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Very nice home, big and spacious. It did need a few items fixed before we got there.

Good
Stayed 7 nights in May 2022
Response from VrboOwner on 5 Mar 2023
Thank you for your feedback. We hope to see you again soon!
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Check-in, location, listing accuracy

Hope to stay there next year again.

Just a few this to look at on your end. There seams to be a lot of mice in the house. The bathroom on the left has drain issues. The room up stairs with the keyless lock should be changed.
Stayed 7 nights in May 2022
Response from VrboOwner on 5 Mar 2023
Thank you for staying with us. There was one mouse, and was taken care of immediately upon your feedback. Drain has been fixed. We hope to see you again in the near future.
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Fun times

Nice spot
Stayed 5 nights in Apr 2022
Response from VrboOwner on 5 Mar 2023
Thank you for staying with us. We hope to see you again soon!!
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Perfect Spot

The pictures don’t do this place justice! The house was charming and exactly what you expect from the island. The inside has been updated beautifully. Our group included 3 couples and one singleton we could’ve comfortably had more people stay. The location was nice and we really enjoyed the fire ring. We had a great time 😁
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2021
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

We loved our stay

This was our third year, the house was excellent and very clean, communication was exceptional……Thank you Kelly!
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2021
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Family get away weekend

Had a great time, plenty of sleeping accommodations for everyone. Our second time renting this house, will come back for future visits. Had trouble connecting to the wi fi but that was the only problem we had. Highly recommend staying here!
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2021
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great Stay On KI

Thank you Kelly for a wonderful vaction week at your home on KI. The Old Stone House was perfect for our multi-family gathering on the island. We were centrally located with access to the rest of our family, the beach and downtown, but yet far enough away to remain pretty quiet. Love the trees and fire pit. We had a little hick up with the keys at the start of the trip, but Kelly very quickly resolved that issue. I appreciate Kelly being so quick to respond to any question we had. She is a terrific host. We will be back at KI again next year and will definitly plan on staying at the Old Stone House again.
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2021
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Kelleys Island Stone House

We enjoyed staying at this large and well-equipped home on Kelleys Island located right across from the old Kelleys Island school now revamped into a community recreation facility. Upstairs was plenty of beds for 12+ with room air conditioners in each room and 2 large bathrooms with tubs and showers. House is quite shaded and stays cool but downstairs would be improved with central air. Large deck with gas grill was great too.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2021
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