Banyan Tree Cottage dans la ville historique de plage

If you enjoy an old fashioned, authentic seaside cottage less than 10 minute walk to the beach, you'll love this cottage. Filled with character and reflections of Florida's seaside past coupled with all of the conveniences you need for an enjoyable vacation. We loved everything about Banyon Tree Cottage.

The Banyan Treehouse Cottage was just what our family needed! We stayed here for our daughters' spring break and it was so relaxing! Everything we needed was provided to make our stay comfortable. Stephen was extremely pleasant & friendly. We are already considering when our next stay should be!

It is a hop, skip, and a jump away from the beach. The location couldn't be more perfect. Extremely quiet street & friendly neighbors.

Thanks again, Stephen!

Apparently, we are the outcasts on reviews of this cottage when compared to what others had to say. I cannot explain why as I do not feel we are all that picky. We have stayed in multiple VRBO properties in recent years and rarely have written negative comments.

Notes on our stay:

2 couples shared the cottage for 8 nights

Upsides:

• Great location; walking distance to bars, restaurants and Pass a Grille shops

• Charming “old Florida” atmosphere with a lovely front porch

• Appreciated the availability of beach chairs

• Owners were very responsive when we lost the Internet connection and in response to another issue

• Nice collection of books if you need a beach read

The downsides:

• Hall bathroom was not clean (floor, tub, window sill)

• Refrigerator was really dirty

• Cleaned the counters myself before we started using the kitchen (film of dust/sand?)

• The door handle to the hall bathroom fell off repeatedly; couldn’t close the door all the way the entire week after having been locked in once when the handle fell off.

• Uncomfortable beds – mattresses are very old with major craters (both bedrooms)

• One comfortable sofa in living room

• Very old and small TV

• Wi-fi service is limited – must sit in the living room to use it with any confidence it won’t cut out (not a problem if you don’t need it for work but two of us needed it daily for work issues)

• Front room is lovely but 2-seat wicker sofa very uncomfortable

• Could not use the gas grill; bought a new tank (owner reimbursed us) but just couldn’t get it to work. Both couples have owned gas grills for years so it wasn’t a matter of not knowing what we were doing. If a grill is that difficult to start, a new one is needed.

Please note that we did not inform the owners of the issues noted in our “downsides” as we didn’t feel they could be addressed immediately so there was no point.

Our two-week stay at this sweet Passagrille cottage was really incredible. Situated between both beach and bay, it was close to both water experiences. The house was outfitted with all of the needed conveniences with blender, queen beds, comfy couch, w/d, tv, study nook perfect for journal writing. Easy walk to beach, parking space allotted next to property, the kind neighbors, the ease of living...what more can I say? It was the perfect beach bungalow experience near everything! Be sure to take an easy walk to historic 8th street--the shops are small but well out-fitted with boutique beach items and nice local art in the small art gallery there. Stephen was easy going and made renting the cottage simple. We are thinking of moving to St Pete and wanted to experience what living day to day would be like in a beach community. We really got a great taste of it--we love Passagrille! Thank you Stephen and Betsy for opening your lovely home! We can't wait to return!