Spacious & tranquil waterfront hideaway on Muscongus Sound Reviews, Deals & Photos 2025

Q: Is Spacious & tranquil waterfront hideaway on Muscongus Sound pet-friendly?

No, only service animals are welcome at the property.

Q: Where is Spacious & tranquil waterfront hideaway on Muscongus Sound located?

Nestled on the beach, this Round Pond cottage is within 6 mi (10 km) of La Verna Preserve, Rachel Carson Salt Pond Preserve and Penobscot Marine Museum. Biscay Pond and Pemaquid Craft Co-op are also within 9 miles (15 km).

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10/10 Excellent

David L.

30 July 2024

Great house on the water

Beautiful house with great decks and sleeping spaces. There was a very close boat launch which was great for us on our kayaking trip.

Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2024

8/10 Good

Bonnie M.

11 Sept 2020

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great for Families

The layout of the house with 3 levels is great. Everything you need. Nice water views. Can hear the lobster boats pickng up traps. Wood burning stove adds a nice touch.

Stayed 6 nights in Aug 2020

8/10 Good

John H.

1 July 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, communication, location, listing accuracy

Round Pond Maine

Nice location, nice house. The view would be better if the the owner trimmed the trees between the house and the ocean view. The clothing dryer is missing the filter and doesn't work.

Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2024

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6/10 Okay

Glenna S.

23 Dec 2022

Coastal getaway in lovely Round Pond

The location near Round Pond was great, with tons of wonderful food and things to do. Easily able to access lots of hikes, restaurants and towns. The kitchen was large and had a lot of cooking items so we could cook at home. Nice to have a washer/dryer. Internet and tv worked great when we used it. Nice but rocky path down to the water with a great view.

8/10 Good

Anna F.

22 Aug 2021

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Modern, comfortable home with a beautiful view

We stayed here with my brother's family, which included a few small kids. The space is very nice, clean, and easy to use and the view of the water is amazing. The floors are all wood or cement (in the basement) so not the best for babies, and you can hear pretty much everything throughout the house between the floors. But it is exactly as it looks in the pictures and is a great place to stay.

Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2021

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10/10 Excellent

Judith W.

10 Aug 2024

A Lovely Retreat

We loved our stay here. Clean and spacious with 2 nice decks with tree obstructed view of the bay. It is on 3 levels - you enter on the main level that has the kitchen, dining room, living room (with views and direct access to the deck), laundry room and half bath. Upstairs is the master bedroom and full bath. The bottom level has 3 beds and a full bath. It is a bit musty but opening the windows solves this. The hot water smells a bit of sulphur but not really a problem. Overall our stay was quiet and peaceful- just what we wanted. Not much to do locally - Round Pond has a good restaurant, coffee shop and a very small store with ice cream. New Harbor, nearby, has a restaurant and boat tours (we took the Puffin Tour which was fun!). We would definitely stay here again.

2/10 Terrible

Zachry N.

30 Sept 2023

Disliked: Check-in, communication, listing accuracy

Home's water had rotten egg smell

From the time we arrived to the time we left actually a day early the water had a very strong rotten egg smell many emails and phone calls to the management company and it was never resolved. We had to shower and wash dishes in rotten eggs.The home was nice, the mgt. company not recommended. I think owners should have access to guest/mgt company real time communications to head off such a bad guest experience.

Stayed 6 nights in Sep 2023

4/10 Poor

Michael B.

4 Aug 2024

Liked: Check-in, location

Disliked: Cleanliness, communication, listing accuracy

Beware mold issue and lack of communication

We really wanted to love this place. The house itself was nice. Great location. Very relaxing. The main floor and top bedroom floor were highlights for sure. Comfortable master bedroom. Great balconies. Nice kitchen. It was a little warm in the summer with no A/C you need to blast the fans, but it’s not a deal breaker. Worse is the upstairs shower has a strong sulpher smell. We also live on a well so we understand a sulpher smell, but this one is stronger than what we expected. It’s not the most pleasant. I recommend this property for 1 or 2 people since the upstairs bedroom was the only usable one. Unfortunately, the property has a severe issue with mold on the bottom floor, making it completely unusable. The smell was strong, and it was evident that the mold problem had been present for some time. This drastically reduced the usable space and comfort of the accommodation. Even more frustrating was the hosts' unresponsiveness. Despite multiple attempts to contact them regarding the mold issue, they were slow to respond and did not take any immediate action to address the problem. This lack of communication and assistance was disappointing and added unnecessary stress to the stay. I’m in the hospitality industry and I’m not one to complain unnecessarily. But people should know the issues we experienced so they can know what to expect.

Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2024

8/10 Good

Shane T.

27 June 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great place for dogs

This is a great place especially if you have dogs. The only advice I would give the management company is to leave directions to the transfer station or better yet take the trash for your guests at the end of their stay. Putting smelly trash in our car wasn’t great. All in all though, it was a great place for a family with dogs!

Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2023

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6/10 Okay

Suzanne J.

10 Nov 2022

Disappointing Home, Lovely Setting

This property is in a lovely, quiet setting overlooking the Gulf of Maine, and we very much enjoyed sitting outside, watching the birds and the lobster boats make their rounds. We liked being able to bring our dog. However, the house itself has a number of problems: Cleaning was not thorough - including dust and pet hair on upholstery, in the primary bedroom, spider webs, dead leaves on decks - not swept or cleaned at all - moldy shower tiles, and there is water damage/bubbling paint on one wall in the lower bathroom. The owner's belongings are everywhere, and although the bathrooms and kitchen are renovated, the furniture feels like leftovers and doesn't provide comfortable seating for four people, particularly on the upper deck, which is the best feature. There isn't any seating at all for the lower deck which, again, was not swept and since it does not have furniture, was unusable. The path down to the water is overgrown with nowhere to sit to enjoy the view from there. The kitchen has decent appliances - although the refrigerator ice maker and water dispenser are broken - and while there are a lot of drinking glasses, the kitchen drawers are disorganized with a random assortment of pots, bowls, etc. for cooking and serving. The bedrooms face east and the curtains/blinds are thin, so we were woken up every morning by the sunrise. Beautiful, but would have been nice to sleep past 6 am. There should be a way to store the garbage outside - living with a progressively smellier garbage for a week wasn't great, and the process of taking the garbage/recyclables to the Bristol dump should be handled by someone hired by Vacasa. Not an ideal way to end a vacation.

8/10 Good

Matthew M., Elmira, NY

5 Oct 2022

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, listing accuracy

Peaceful setting, awful parking.

Overall a nice quiet home located at the end of the road. Area was beautiful and the weather was very pleasant. My only complaint would be the parking. The parking area appeared to not have been mowed in months. And it required a fair amount of manoeuvring of my midsized car to turn around to leave.

Stayed 7 nights in Sep 2022

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

4 Oct 2022

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication

Disliked: Listing accuracy

Uncomfortable without heat.

The heat was not working when we arrived. We had hoped to make it through night without it, but could not. I felt it was too late to have someone (not a technician) arrive after 9pm to attempt to correct. The assistant manager and I agreed someone would come out in the morning, but the night proved too cold for us to stay any longer. Bottom line is the should have been working upon our arrival. Place not set up properly. This is the first and only time this has happened to us. Thank you.

Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2022

6/10 Okay

Kevin O., Holtsville

24 Aug 2022

Liked: Check-in, communication, location

It was ok but could have been a home run

Was very basic. Things are a bit weathered /old. The 2nd bedroom is the basement and we were on a cement floor. Some vinyl flooring would have been much better. And no TV in the 2nd bedroom. The 2nd full bathroom had some major paint peeling like 12”x10”. There is no real access to the water no clearing no chairs no fire pit which was a big shame , the neighbor to the left had a beautiful set up. Now they did supply some binoculars which were great to see some bald eagles. But all in all was just ok some TLC would make it a 1000 times better.

Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2022

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10/10 Excellent

Stacy O.

17 May 2022

Quiet, isolated, beautiful views

View out windows, roped in deck very nice, felt quite safe letting dogs on it, nice desk for jigsaw puzzles, very comfortable, felt like a family home

4/10 Poor

John H.

28 Apr 2022

Liked: Check-in, location

Disliked: Cleanliness, communication, listing accuracy

Don't stay at this property

Cleanliness was poor. Inside and outside of property. Nails sticking out of the floor. No trash bags, dog poop all over the outside of the property. Lights on deck did not work.

Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2022

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8/10 Good

Lena M.

28 Mar 2022

Great view

Loved the spot for what our stay was for. Was hard to find the road but we managed. I wish they told us that animals were allowed because the animal hair really bothered my allergies. It could of used a better cleaning as well. The house and location is beautiful but I'm picky with housekeeping especially when someone else was here prior to you. If the cleaning was better I'd give a 5.

Stayed 7 nights in Mar 2022

8/10 Good

ana v.

19 Mar 2022

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Lovely

Excellent location and home

Stayed 7 nights in Mar 2022

10/10 Excellent

Camille H.

24 Oct 2021

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Loved this Home. Perfect location!

Wonderful house! Nice, quiet area! Loved watching the eagles and Lobster boats! Easy to get to many of the areas restaurants and places to visit! My husband already booked for next year. My only comment is to have a broom to sweep! Everything else was perfect!

Stayed 28 nights in Sep 2021

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10/10 Excellent

MICHAEL S.

27 July 2021

Nice location, TurnKey was very responsive

Rating Details: The property manager was very helpful. The vacation rental was very clean. I was very happy with the location. I was more than satisfied with the condition of the vacation rental. Overall, I recommend this vacation rental. Reviewer Comments: This was a nice, quiet hideaway with a view to the bay. We stayed in summer so a few tree branches could have helped to provide a better view of the water. We had some issues with our rental but found TurnKey to be quite responsive.

8/10 Good

Alex B.

29 Dec 2020

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

A nice winter vacation, but not “perfect”

The house has a great layout and a lovely setting, and the management company is very responsive. The challenge is with the details: the furniture isn’t all that comfortable, the kitchen is kind of randomly equipped (e.g. about 5 frying pans but no ladle or baking sheet), and the living room only had bright overhead lighting. These things might be less of an issue in the summer, but for a winter vacation you want comfortable furniture with good lighting to read a book or do a crossword puzzle. The listing should state you need 4-wheel drive in the winter as we found the last stretch of the road was pretty much a sheet of ice. Overall we had a good week at the house but it could have been even better.

Stayed 7 nights in Dec 2020

8/10 Good

Victoria A.

16 Nov 2020

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location

Fall in Maine

My husband and I stayed I at this home for 6 weeks. It is a lovely property. Wonderful master bedroom, bath and main floor living. The second bedroom is in the basement and that area is not as inviting but manageable. Just realize that it is concrete floor and noisy with boiler and dehumidifier. Overall the listing is very much as shown in pictures.

Stayed 49 nights in Sep 2020

10/10 Excellent

Honorino C., Harrison, United States

15 Sept 2020

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Family gathering

We had a very good time. Quiet neighborhood, the house is as described. 👍👍

Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2020

10/10 Excellent

William L.

10 Sept 2020

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Nice little place on the water in Maine

We had a good experience with an easy check in Defined the house was clean, spacious and suitable for family with kids. The kitchen was nicely stocked with all that you need to prep a meal, the house comfortable with a fan, proper bedding materials, and a nice shower. The house itself is on three levels with the main bedroom and master bath on top, the main floor with a Roku-connected TV, reliable Internet service and Wi-Fi that was accessible throughout the house. there’s a main deck with some outside furniture and a lower level deck that communicates to a stone walkway down to the waters edge. There were some dense vegetation between the house and the water that afforded privacy, but slightly kept the water out of view. However after a one minute walk, you are sitting on these beautiful rocks. I had my coffee down on the rocks and found it quite relaxing. The area itself is wonderful, round pond is great and the food there around round pond was spectacular. Who doesn’t enjoy a shore dinner on a beautiful summer night? We like the area and we would be happy to stay at the same house again!

Stayed 5 nights in Sep 2020

8/10 Good

Kevin M., Mason NH

6 Sept 2020

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Family getaway

Large and functional property with a great cooking kitchen and excellent master suite on top level.

Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2020

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8/10 Good

Natalie D.

5 June 2020

Great stay on the water in Maine

Rating Details: The property manager was very helpful. The vacation rental was spotless. I was very happy with the location. I was more than satisfied with the condition of the vacation rental. Overall, I recommend this vacation rental. Reviewer Comments: This house was lovely and very clean. We loved being right on the water, and having the two decks to enjoy the view and sit outside. The location is great.

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