My family and a group of our friends rent a home in La Quinta annually. We have had wonderful experiences thus far, however this year was a bit different. I will start with some positive remarks from this home because, although we didn't have a great experience, I believe this home has potential if MAJOR changes are made. There are 5 bedrooms and each room has its own bathroom- difficult to find a rental of this size with a bathroom for each guest. Three of the rooms have bathtubs (this is great when you travel with young children). Additionally, the kitchen was supplied with "higher end" appliances.
Negative- for starters, this house was NOT clean. I would prefer to use the word disgusting... and this was absolutely our biggest complaint. Upon walking into our room, we noticed a piece of "trash" under the bed, which to my horror was a condom wrapper. This prompted me to look further only to find even more (band-aid, red solo-cup, snack wrappers, etc). Pretty disgusting, especially when you pay a pretty hefty cleaning fee to stay here. The sheets and comforters on the beds were stained. My comforter, in particular, had [what I believed to be] red lipsticks on it. Isn't it standard to have CLEAN SHEETS?! Cobwebs- I am not talking a day or even a weeks worth of small cobwebs, I am talking MASSIVE amounts of cobwebs on the ceilings/corners. Grab a dang swiffer and swiff that away! Ok, lets talk about the pool. First of the all, it was green and murky. I was a little concerned we would get a viral infection of some sort since it looked like it hadn't been cleaned in ages, but hey, we were on vacation and we all work in the medical field, so we took our chances (luckily we survived). The pool filter clearly doesn't work and if they do have a pool man, it is about time to start looking for a new one because he surely isn't doing his job. The casita, well as a previous renter wrote, the a/c doesn't work and I am here to confirm it does not, although the owner/manager replied to the previous renter that it does. Literal hot box. It also doesn't have a TV. The upkeep is horrible, there were holes in the walls, stained carpet. I could go on and on. I am writing this in hopes that the owner sees it, maybe he'll have the manager take care of these issues (although if you google his name, its pretty clear he doesn't manage his homes well!) Avoid this house like the plague. There are MANY other fabulous choices. This house does NOT deserve $1100/night.