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Beautiful Gulf-front home with great amenities, short walk to the beach

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Property grounds
Living area
Dining
Private kitchen

Reviews

8.0 out of 10
Very good
4 bedrooms3 bathroomsSleeps 11

Popular amenities

  • Dryer
  • Washer
  • Parking available
  • Kitchen
  • Outdoor space
  • Air conditioning

Explore the area

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Port Bolivar, TX
  • Crystal Beach
    ‪1 min walk‬
  • East Beach
    ‪40 min drive‬
  • Port of Galveston Cruise Terminal
    ‪41 min drive‬
  • Galveston, TX (GLS-Scholes Intl.)
    ‪50 min drive‬

Rooms & beds

4 bedrooms (sleeps 11)

Bedroom 1

1 King Bed

Bedroom 2

1 Queen Bed

Bedroom 3

1 Double Bed and 3 Single Beds

Bedroom 4

1 Queen Bed

3 bathrooms

Bathroom 1

Bathroom 2

Bathroom 3

Spaces

Deck or patio
Kitchen
Balcony
Separate dining area
Garden
Dining Area

About this property

Beautiful Gulf-front home with great amenities, short walk to the beach

Shore Thing

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This spectacular home is perfect for your next retreat to Port Bolivar! The amazing decor, cozy furniture, and grand layout will make your stay feel easy, comfortable, and reminiscent of home. Relax on the furnished deck as you admire the mesmerizing views of Crystal Beach, or enjoy a barbecue picnic with the family after a fun-filled day in the sand.

Located a short walk from the beach, this home is conveniently close to State Highway 87 for easy access to shops, restaurants, and attractions. Just around the corner, the whole family can enjoy seasonal thrills at the Fun Spot Water Slide. The ferry port connecting to the historic city of Galveston is only 12 miles away as well.

Things to Know
Check-in time: 4:00 p.m.
Check-out time: 10:00 a.m.
All guests shall abide by Vacasa’s good neighbor policy and shall not engage in illegal activity. Quiet hours are from 10:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m.
No smoking is permitted anywhere on the premises.

Parking notes: There is free parking available for 4 vehicles.



Damage waiver: The total cost of your reservation for this Property includes a nightly damage waiver fee, plus tax if applicable (the “Damage Waiver”). (A discount may be applied for stays of 28 nights or longer, if permitted.) The Damage Waiver covers you for up to $3,000 of accidental damage to the Property or its contents (such as furniture, fixtures, and appliances) as long as you report the incident to the host prior to checking out. The Damage Waiver fee eliminates the need for a traditional security deposit.
More information can be downloaded from the "Rental Agreement" on the checkout page.

Due to local laws or HOA requirements, guests must be at least 25 years of age to book. Guests under 25 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian for the duration of the reservation.

Property manager

Vacasa of Texas
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Languages

English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

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Amenities

Kitchen
Washer
Dryer
Free WiFi
Air conditioning
Ocean view

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House Rules

Check in after 4:00 PM
Minimum age to rent: 25
Check out before 10:00 AM
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Children

Children allowed: ages 0–17
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Events

No events allowed
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Pets

No pets allowed
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Smoking

Smoking is not permitted
Smoking is not permitted anywhere on the premises.
For information about quiet hours, please refer to the listing description.

Important information

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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
On-site parties or group events are strictly prohibited
Host has indicated that there is a carbon monoxide detector on the property
Host has indicated that there is a smoke detector on the property
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher, a first aid kit and a deadlock

About the area

Port Bolivar

Located in Port Bolivar, this holiday home is on the beach. Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier is a popular area attraction and if an activity is on the agenda, Port of Galveston Cruise Terminal and Port of Galveston are worth checking out. Moody Gardens and Texas Seaport Museum are also worth visiting. Power boating, fishing and swimming offer great chances to get out on the surrounding water, or you can seek out an adventure with cycling nearby.
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Port Bolivar, TX

What's nearby

  • Crystal Beach - 1 min walk - 0.1 km
  • East Beach - 40 min drive - 21.0 km
  • Port of Galveston Cruise Terminal - 41 min drive - 18.8 km
  • Galveston Seawall - 42 min drive - 20.2 km
  • Galveston Island Beaches - 48 min drive - 28.9 km

Restaurants

  • ‪Nauti Beaver Hut - ‬8 min drive
  • ‪Jose's Cantina Cajun Steakhouse - ‬6 min drive
  • ‪HardHeads IceHouse & GRILL - ‬6 min drive
  • ‪La Playita Restaurant - ‬9 min drive
  • ‪Tiki Beach Bar & Grill - ‬7 min drive

Frequently asked questions

Is Beautiful Gulf-front home with great amenities, short walk to the beach pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

What time is check-in at Beautiful Gulf-front home with great amenities, short walk to the beach?

Check-in begins at 4:00 PM.

What time is check-out at Beautiful Gulf-front home with great amenities, short walk to the beach?

Checkout is at 10:00 AM.

Where is Beautiful Gulf-front home with great amenities, short walk to the beach located?

This Port Bolivar holiday home is on the beach, steps from Crystal Beach and within 6 mi (10 km) of Port Bolivar Beaches and Fort Travis Seashore Park. Galveston Ferry Terminal and Seawolf Park are also within 9 miles (15 km).

Reviews

8.0

Very good

Reviews are presented in chronological order, subject to a moderation process, and verified unless otherwise labelled.
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Rating 10 - Excellent. 27 out of 56 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 12 out of 56 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 9 out of 56 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 2 out of 56 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 6 out of 56 reviews

6.8/10

Cleanliness

8.6/10

Check-in

7.2/10

Communication

9.4/10

Location

7.8/10

Listing accuracy

Reviews

2/10 Terrible

diane l.

Liked: Communication, location
Disliked: Cleanliness, check-in, listing accuracy
significant water damage and mold in this house
This house has potential, on the beach and great location but it has had signifiant water damage and mold on the wall inside the home. Floors in kitchen and front room were dirty, their was an old pot of coffee & grounds left behind and pantry was full of crumbs. The property manage did a great job of responding quickly to our needs to getting us moved.
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2024

4/10 Poor

Traci W.

Liked: Check-in, communication, location
Disliked: Cleanliness, listing accuracy
Dog Hair, hair and Fingernails
Let me start off by saying management and Vacasa are amazing! However we walked in this house and instantly knew it would be bad. A stale musty smell hit us so hard. We brought our things in playing it off that the house may have just been closed up and air turned off. Our son put his pillow on the couch and a puff of DOG hair went flying. There was dog hair all over the couches that were severely stained and honestly scary to think about sitting on. Things happen so i was like I can clean that. Well we go in our room and there are dead roaches on the floor, with human and dog hair everywhere. Including the bed. Hair was literally rolling across the floor. I called management at this time. She was so kind and was going to send someone to clean. At this point my 3 year old got dog hair/human hair in his mouth. I call her back telling her all the beds are full of hair. She started working on getting us moved at this point. We packed up and moved to a smaller but way nicer and cleaner house. If she wasn’t so amazing I would say this was the worsr VRBO experience ever. However her prompt solution saved it all. This house needs a lot of work and pictures don’t match the condition of the house. I could look past all those things. However hair bugs and fingernails everywhere aren’t something I can get over. The house ultimately smells and feels gross.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2025
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10/10 Excellent

Harris S.

Love the house
We love that it's kids friendly and it has a lot of sitting room and a lot of space for big families

2/10 Terrible

Stephen H.

Disliked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Great location!
Great place to stay!
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2020
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8/10 Good

ARNO P.

4004 bascayne
The house was beautiful and spacious. It just needed more linens
Stayed 5 nights in Jun 2024
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6/10 Okay

Garry O.

Ok, but not priced right for place
It was very large.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Christina U.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Getaway
Great place to stay!
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2023
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8/10 Good

Liza H.

Beautiful View Great Deck
This home has a great deck with lots of seating looking over the beach and ocean. Beach access is very close. It was a great home for our large family. It is a ways away from grocery stores so get what you need for cooking before you get there.
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8/10 Good

Leland M.

Beautiful
It’s was a beautiful house and place to spend my birthday away , anyone would enjoy it and the scenery.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Karen M.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Girl's Weekend
Wonderful time in a beautiful home with great friends.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Rachel A.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Great friends getaway!
We loved this house. It is big and spacious and beautiful! The view is amazing and a short walk to a pretty quiet beach. Big porch to sit and relax after a Long Beach day. The house had everything we needed. Will definitely have to stay here again!
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

melanie m.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, location, listing accuracy
Disliked: Communication
Great Weekend
Great stay overall and will be renting again!!! Only hiccup I found was I would have liked for the request for early check-in/late check-out to be answered instead of a generic text response which didn’t answer my questions. But great place to stay!!!!
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, location, listing accuracy
Disliked: Communication
Beautiful cabin with easy walking access to the beach!
We enjoyed our stay. Communication was slow but they were nice when we got ahold of them. The cabin looked just like the pictures and was very clean. The only downside was the painted deck and concrete stayed very wet and slippery the entire trip from just a small amount of rain. Overall, very happy with our stay.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2020

10/10 Excellent

Ash C.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Girls Trip
Absolutely beautiful! It rained most of the time so we were in the house. Very comfortable, clean, lots of room. Plenty of kitchen pots, pans, cookie sheets, utensils. We caught up on our laundry beings it was raining. Short walk to the beach. Beautiful view of the Gulf. I’d recommend this to anyone family or group that wants to spacious house next to the Ocean.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Angela W.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
great girls weekend
5 girls had a great stay at Shore Thing!! Easy access to beach, early coffee mornings on patio overlooking the water and fully stocked home made it a great weekend getaway. Only downside mentioned already is the outdoor grill--needs deep, deep cleaning and the property would benefit from much easier to use gas grill...we had to cook steaks inside due to the hassle using that grill would've been
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2020

6/10 Okay

Robyn H.

Liked: Check-in, communication, location
Disliked: Cleanliness, listing accuracy
60th Birthday Celebration
Property manager is very nice and very helpful. Kitchen appliances were filthy. Fire place is wood burning with firewood not provided was advertised as gas. Hot water did not work in master or upstairs bath. The house is very spacious, perfect location to beach. I would rent again hoping the above issues would be solved.
Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2024

6/10 Okay

Michelle B.

Liked: Check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Travelers
Main bathtub will not hold water. Had trouble getting hot water in bathrooms/ showers. Had to go get cleaning supplies and clean deck and windows. House was clean. Need some caulking around crown molding in the master bedroom. Could use a good pressure washing. Refrigerator had a smell .
Stayed 7 nights in Feb 2024

4/10 Poor

Stormy J.

Liked: Location
Disliked: Check-in, communication, listing accuracy
Hot bedrooms, 1million $ property, $150k house.
The rooms are hot! Our friend had to sleep in his truck because it was so hot in the rooms. We have rented tons of homes and this was the worst so far! The owner claimed that her "million dollar house" needed maintenance after we checked in. It is not a million dollar house. It is a $150k house with a million dollar property.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

2/10 Terrible

M J.

Liked: Location
Disliked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, listing accuracy
ALIVE & DEAD ROACHES/FILTHY HOUSE!,RUDE MANAGER!!
I’ve already done this review with Vacasa! I am EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED in Vrbo AND Vacasa! I emailed both companies BEFORE Booking to address the issues brought up by past guests about the cleanliness of the place and I was ASSURED that the issues had been resolved! They WERE NOT!! There were roaches, ALL the sitting furniture was STAINED/SOILED/DIRTY, there was dripping condensation on top of children’s heads due to a Vent placed right over the upstairs Toilet, the Liner on the shower curtain was FILTHY AND FULL OF MILDEW, the house needs a new paint coating-especially around doors that look MOLDY and baseboards around the house , walls were soiled with what looks like FECES, dead roaches found in laundry room, livingroom and pantry,the kitchen DRAWERS/CABINETS/UTENSILS WERE FILTHY and HALF washed, there were wet paper towels in the kitchen sink that appeared to have been used to wipe the counter top(GROSS),carpet was STAINED AND FILTHY!! I called the Property Manager to address the issues, ones that I had already previously sent emails about after reading all the NEGATIVE REVIEWS about the house NOT being clean and SHE got upset,started YELLING at me when I questioned why the past guest issues were NOT resolved and she HUNG UP IN MY FACE!!!! The place was NOT clean!! We were only given TWO towels per bathroom even tho there were 9 people We went to the Dollar General to buy more towels and essentials!! There was a big hole over the bed in the Master Bedrm. Carpet FILTHY
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2023
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2/10 Terrible

Maneeka A.

Don’t rent this property!
This is the worst experience of renting a condo I have ever had! Property management was rude and unapologetic. When we arrived at the house we quickly realized that the furnishings did not match the pictures! As we were unloading we realized there was no running water. I contacted the property manager who didn’t even seemed fazed or rushed to find out why we had no water. Come to find out later, the owner doesn’t pay her water bill and has a deal with the water company that as soon as she makes a payment the water company will come out and turn the water on. WHAT??? How is that even ok??? Finally got water 5 hours after our arrival. There was no ice at the house. We couldn’t use the restrooms. But that’s just the beginning. Can you even clean a house with no running water? I wonder if the house was even cleaned. The house looked like it had been cleaned by a teenager in about 10 minutes. Pillows did not have pillow cases, Blankets had stains. The beds looked like someone had rolled around in them. There was hardly any soap in the restrooms. Dog toys under the coach, water bottles under the bed. The final straw was the dead roach we found in the living room. The coffee pot was cracked. Only 1 roll of paper towels and 1 toilet paper roll per bathroom. Only 1 towel per guest for the length of your stay. The outside furniture was different from the photos and dirty. This house needs some serious TLC. Rusty/Moldy holes in the ceiling, crown molding cracked and falling off/Door lock box doesn’t work/needs better blinds. This could have been made a little better if Vacasa or the property manager attempted to make this right. But only refunding the cleaning fee is not enough. This was a weekend getaway that turned into more stress than relaxation. Vacasa needs to remove this listing.

2/10 Terrible

Michelle H.

Disliked: Cleanliness, communication, listing accuracy
I’d give zero stars if I could
I am not one to write bad reviews, honestly this may be my very first. If previous reviews are read on this property, I’d say the negative reviews are putting this property nicely. We rented this property with low expectations based on the reviews but were hopeful that based on management responses that the issues would be rectified. If I could submit pictures of the condition this house was in to help people better understand, I would (I did email several to Vacasa). The house goes far beyond being dirty. The house didn’t appear to be cleaned (which would contradict management responses of switching cleaning companies). I understand this is a peak time of year to visit this property but I don’t understand why you get charged a cleaning fee when it didn’t appear to be cleaned? We saw: Blood spots on the floor What appeared to be feces on upstairs toilet seat Ceiling leaking on three spots Mold/mildew all over vents Walls dinged up and almost all walls had substances on them Carpet was very stained in many spots Master shower hardware was falling apart Two bedroom doors couldn’t be closed without a struggle because the door frames are detaching from the wall furniture stained Floors dirty I would never stay in this property again. I had tried reaching out to the property manager three weeks before our reservation, I made three attempts and did not get a response. I was on the phone with Vacasa the minute we walked into this property. Vacasa was helpful but the actual property manager has not been. This house COULD be spectacular as it is described in the description but it lacks basic upkeep and basic cleaning therefore many things are falling apart, unfortunately. I hope this reviews helps someone. I was weary booking this property based on previous reviews but this house even fell below what I was expecting. The property manager clearly has not held up to the responses they’ve given for the poor reviews of making any changes. I feel misled by this property description entirely and I’m very disappointed.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2022
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10/10 Excellent

Greg T.

Five Star Clean
We stayed for a week over Thanksgiving with out family, total of 7, and it was wonderful. It was clean with all the kitchen supplies you would need to entertain a large group. The beaches were nice,, community was quiet and clean. We will stay here again, thank you so much for offering your Home.
Stayed 6 nights in Nov 2022

6/10 Okay

Christel G., Lake Charles, LA

Liked: Location
Disliked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication
Location is the only plus
I loved the location of this rental but I’m sad to say that was about it. On arrival the only access door was stuck. After prolonged communication with the property manager, during which I had to prove I couldn’t get in with video, they finally sent someone to help me. He had a struggle to get in as well and immediately began “fixing” the issue. It never was truly fixed, he just ended up showing me the “trick” to make it work. This should have been my sign. From there, the shower was full of mold. The floor was filthy. There was barely any hot water and the bed was basically a rock. All of these could easily be fixed with some attention. I truly wanted to love this home- the location is perfection!! But sadly, it wasn’t even close to being worth the money!!
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2022
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10/10 Excellent

Blake C.

The Shore Thing
The house was great but the view from the porch is incredible. It is a million dollar view. We spent majority of our time at the beach or on the porch.
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2022

8/10 Good

Courtney G.

Liked: Check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
My stay
Good stay
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2022

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