Avila Beach Retreat: Pets & Families Welcome!

5/21/2026 TH: Confirmed the MBR bed was made. Poor linen quality though. Terri sent review to Drew. Hide review from website.

Thank you for the five star shout out to the Seven Sisters team. My team works hard to ensure a guest's vacay experience is memorable. Avila Beach Gem is one of the few single family homes in Avila Beach. This home is a budget family beach experience nestled in the big oak trees. The Gem is a quick walk from the beach and downtown. Wanting big ocean views? I recommend Avila Beach Jewel for the ocean view experience.

Thank you for commenting the house was clean and well furnished. The homeowner and my team work hard to ensure our guests are comfortable. The home is accurately described in the listing that it's nestled among the big oak trees and a block from the beach and downtown area. Myself I enjoy the patio area looking into the oak tree forest. On your next visit to Avila Beach there are many other properties with ocean views like AVILA BEACH JEWEL. Take a peek at this property when booking again.

Thank you for taking the time to review our beach house. My team and I spoke with you about street parking for your large truck. The garage is a standard 2 car garage. We have seen other guests park over-size autos in the garage. We will keep a watchful eye for ants. This is the first I know of an ant problem from your review. If notified we could have quickly remedied the problem.

Thank you so much for taking the time to share your feedback, and we’re glad to hear that you enjoyed your first visit to Avila Beach! It’s great that you were able to make the most of the beach, explore the town, and enjoy some quality family time. We sincerely apologize for the issues you encountered during your stay, particularly regarding the WiFi and cleanliness of the floors. We understand how frustrating it must have been to arrive and find the WiFi not working, especially when you had important work tasks and baby monitors to set up. While we're happy the response time was decent, we’re reviewing our procedures to make sure these kinds of issues are resolved faster in the future. As for the floors, we are very sorry they were not up to standard. We take cleanliness seriously and will be addressing this with our cleaning team to ensure that every guest arrives to a spotless home, especially with the no-shoes policy in place. We also appreciate your feedback about the kitchen supplies. We will review the kitchen inventory and consider expanding the selection of basic cooking essentials to better accommodate future guests. Thank you again for sharing both the positives and areas where we can improve. We hope you’ll consider staying with us again so we can provide an even better experience next time. If you have any additional thoughts or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out!

REPLY FROM OWNER: Thank you for your review. Since your stay, we have changed our management company. We are now with Seven Sister Vacation Rentals, located in Avila Beach. Terri and her team does an excellent job at keeping everything in a clean, and in perfect working order for our property. All the windows have been fixed. Unfortunately tenants has been rough on the window cranks and in 3 years has broken half of them. We had to organize a specialist to come out and now all the blinds and windows are fixed. Because we love our pets we have extended this privilege to our tenants. We do allow well behaved pets in our property however we deep clean after every pet, where all the couches and carpet will be clean for future tenants. Thus, sometimes when you request to enter the property earlier than the regular time of 4pm the couch may be damp from the cleaning. We like to accommodate your requests as much as possible however please understand the circumstances. We have now switched out to the door code system where no key is needed. So, if we are able to accommodate tenants to check in early, given the cleaning crew is done, with no extra early arrival fee. Accessory items such as the ironing board was misplaced in the garage, and we have replaced all accessory items such as coffee maker and iron with brand new items this year. This is our second home and take pride in keeping things clean and updating with new decor. We ask tenants to also keep this in mind when sharing our home. We are looking forward in having you again!