Mammoth Trip, Mammoth Trip! We all decided to come up here for the weekend, the BF, and our friends…read morewanted to get in some boarding action (or lack thereof). We were willing to share a hotel room, but then again we all wanted our privacy at the same time. Our friend went on a search and came across this condominium for rent. At $160.00, a night split four ways that was a deal. Our condominium was number "222"and from looking at the photos on the web site, it looked to be warm and cozy. We arrived in Mammoth around 2:30am; the complex is not too big, which was nice. Our condominium was located upstairs and not too far from the street. Laura and I went in first with our things, and WOW the place was big and had all the accommodations of home.
Two bedrooms (one full and one loft)
Two full bathrooms
Fully equipped kitchen for your every cooking needs
Bath towels and linens
Flat screen TVs (in the living room and bedroom)
PS2 with games
Children DVD's and books
Electric BBQ
Complimentary firewood for the wood burning stove
Electric heating
Free Wi-Fi
Full living room (with chairs and a sink in couch)
As we were unloading stuff and looking around, Laura and I realized that there was a light on in a room but the door was closed. Both of us freaked each other out about what might be behind that closed door. At first, she was going to open it, and then we decided to have one of the guys do it. Hello BF to save the day! BF looked at us as if we were crazy then cracked a smile and went to open the door. Whoever cleaned the condominium left the bedroom light on. So glad that there was not some weirdo in there! We laughed it off and started to unpack our things.
BF and I took the loft bedroom; the stairs are pretty steep and windy walking up with your luggage. Got a great workout that whole weekend too! Our area had plenty of space. Two full size beds, a torch lamp, and an old school TV that only had three cable channels a DVD/VHS and plenty of kiddie DVD's (womp womp)!
Now for the truly creepy part of our stay, I noticed that there was what looked like two boards put up over some windows. BF poked at one of the boards that were covering the space and it budged a little. Figuring that it was secure and that it was probably either another unit or a storage space we did not think much of it. As I went downstairs, we heard this loud bang, the board that BF poked had fallen into the other unit (or storage space) all three of us came rushing up to see what happened in the loft. To our surprise, there was another room complete with a single bed, a creepy old school desk in the corner and a lamp on the floor. I now definably cannot sleep with that board being inside that room. So Laura said she would go inside and try to put it back up. When she went in she realized that "other unit" was actually part of ours and it had a lot of crap stored in there (extra blankets, paint cans ect). I was so happy that we were able to put the board back up.
Now for the lowlights on the place (outside of the above mentioned):
-Bugs! Yes, I know it is the mountains but come on inside the house. This poor wood wasp was trapped inside our loft area window. He never came down to bug us. However, his buzzing scared me whenever I was sitting on the floor in our area.
-Dead bugs on our comforters.
-Our urber uncomfortable bed that come to find out was an extra mattress that was tossed onto our mattress.
-Bring your own TP. We started out with only one. No bueno when there are two dudes in the house!
-The heater works great! If you are staying in the loft, by night 2 you are sweating worse than in a sauna.
-Loft bathroom has an electric wall heater and a super bright vanity mirror, the combo of the two plus taking a hot shower makes it super warm (think mister toads wild ride hell scene)
-The place is in bad need of some fixing and a lot of TLC.
-Couch is made of feathers, which poke and hurt; we decided to use the extra comforter to put on top.
Parking lot had a lot of spaces to park at anytime of the day or night; the complex was quite during the day and night, which was nice. And everything is within walking distance too!
I would totally come back and stay here again, just probably not in unit 222! Eeks!