The Rivery Retreat, Choose from Luxury Guesthouse Cabin OR Poolside Suite in Lake Austin Hill Country

the location was beautiful and quate and dark in to the woods

The host and her daughter were amazing. The pool/hot tub area was beautiful. I loved the porch swings and the wrap around porch.

The view is amazing! You will never know you are in the capital of Texas. Very short drive to all the things to see, do and eat.

Exceptional

Read the rental agreement thoroughly before renting this property! You will get the agreement after you reserve the rental and at that point it may be too late to get your deposit back so just be cautious. The agreement is very lengthy (it says 3 pages but when you copy and paste it into a word document at a 12 point font, it’s actually 8 pages) and the owner definitely sticks to the guidelines. Before I get into that, I will say the neighborhood is beautiful and the rental and the rental property is awesome – the owner is a very talented artist and the neighborhood is great. There is a restaurant nearby called the Cuerny Icehouse that has live music on weekends and a big outdoor patio. And the Bee Caves area has a ton of great restaurants as well. However, there are some misleading details in the initial online description of the rental. The rental is close to the water, as a crow flies, but it is actually about a 10 minute drive to public access to the water. From the time we reserved this rental, we received multiple emails from the owner trying to get us to purchase different gift and food baskets and hot tub time. I understand that it takes energy to heat the pool and hot tub, but it isn’t laid out very clearly in the initial online ad that you will have to schedule and possibly pay for time. You cannot open windows or wear shoes in the house, which isn’t a deal breaker for most people but it is something to consider if you enjoy fresh air while you sleep, like I do. The owner was very helpful during our stay as far as giving us tips of things to see and do in Austin but upon checkout, she became pretty hostile. She accused me of trying to extort her because I didn’t want to write a review until after I knew how much of my deposit I was getting back but when someone charges you for 4 $60 towels and another $90 on top of that to ONLINE shop for those towels, it will obviously affect how we review our stay.

For me it was the quiet nights and relaxing days, a much needed break. I am sure that I enjoyed every minute I spent there. I have nothing bad to say.

Quite and private location Mosquitos LOL