点评:My wife and I stayed at a VRBO on Kingfisher Dr at North Captiva Island Oct '23. We stayed at the same location 2 years ago and had a great time. This time, what a huge disappointment. From the beginning of the trip getting on the ferry the crew on the boat from Island Girl Charters were not friendly. They were stand offish and barely cracked a smile or talked to us. It's been over a year since the hurricane and the island still looks like crap. Honestly, it seems like the people that live there have given up. There are huge piles of garbage and construction/housing debris piled up everywhere, mostly in front of houses by the roadways, pretty much everywhere. It seems like the cleanup efforts have stopped, or never even really started. We were duped about how many restaurants are open. The VRBO website said there were 2 restaurants open plus the Mango's Pool Bar. That's actually not true. There are no restaurants open during the week and one is only open on the weekends. There is a pool bar open during the week for food, but it closes at 6PM. They won't serve you after 5:30PM. The golf cart at the house was a piece of junk. The brakes failed and we were almost involved in a crash with another golf cart pulling out onto a roadway at Kingfish Dr and the main road by the runway. We had to get it exchanged, although that did not happen until the next day. Both golf carts were very dirty. We paid for groceries to be delivered and stocked in the VRBO home for when we arrived. When we got there the groceries were on the kitchen floor in bags. We paid 40% extra for the stocking fee. The local residents on the island obviously aren't too keen on having tourists there yet as they are rude, and actually verbally belligerent as we encountered with one particular resident on Kingfisher Dr where we stayed. There was construction going on until 8PM with loud music from the workers there. The locals that hang out at Mango's seem like a bunch of drunks who give any non-local the stink eye. We expected the water on the Gulf side where we stayed to be clear and pristine, as described on the VRBO page. It was anything but that. It had a yellow mustard tinge to it, obviously something left over from the hurricane and/or red tide that has affected the area. This place is far from being ready for tourists and visitors. In my opinion they are about 5 years from being ready. The way it looks now, it should be called "Dumpster Island" because it's a mess. Do not recommend. Go to the Keys or Carribean instead for sure.
翻译:23 年 10 月,我和妻子住在北卡普蒂瓦岛 Kingfisher Dr 的 VRBO。两年前我们住在同一个地方,度过了一段愉快的时光。这一次,真是一个巨大的失望。从旅行一开始登上渡轮,Island Girl Charters 船上的船员就不友好。他们态度冷淡,几乎没有微笑或与我们交谈。飓风过去一年多了,这个岛看起来仍然像垃圾一样。老实说,住在那里的人似乎已经放弃了。到处都堆满了大堆的垃圾和建筑/房屋残骸,大部分都在道路旁的房屋前面,几乎到处都是。清理工作似乎已经停止,甚至从未真正开始。我们被欺骗了有多少家餐馆还在营业。 VRBO 网站称,有 2 家餐厅营业,另外还有 Mango's Pool Bar。这实际上不是真的。周一至周五没有营业的餐厅,只有周末营业。池畔酒吧周一至周五营业,提供食物,但下午 6 点关门。下午 5:30 后他们将不再为您服务。家里的高尔夫球车是个垃圾。刹车失灵,我们差点与另一辆高尔夫球车发生撞车事故,另一辆高尔夫球车驶入 Kingfish Dr 的道路和跑道旁的主干道。我们必须把它换掉,尽管直到第二天才发生。两辆高尔夫球车都很脏。当我们到达时,我们支付了将杂货交付并存放在 VRBO 之家的费用。当我们到达那里时,杂货袋装在厨房地板上。我们额外支付了 40% 的进货费。岛上的当地居民显然不太热衷于接待游客,因为他们很粗鲁,而且当我们在我们住的 Kingfisher Dr 遇到一位特定居民时,他们的言语实际上很好斗。施工一直持续到晚上 8 点,工人们的音乐声很大。在芒果店闲逛的当地人看起来就像一群醉汉,他们对任何非本地人都投以恶眼。我们预计我们停留的海湾一侧的海水清澈原始,如 VRBO 页面上所述。但事实并非如此。它带有黄色芥末色调,显然是影响该地区的飓风和/或赤潮留下的东西。这个地方还远没有为游客和游客做好准备。我认为他们大约需要 5 年时间才能准备好。现在看来,应该叫“垃圾岛”,因为实在是太乱了。不推荐。一定要去群岛或加勒比海。