This is a great house, in a great location, and overall, we really enjoyed ourselves. We're a family with two teens and one water loving lab mix dog. We spent four nights here. The area has lots to offer but we landed here in a middle of a heat wave, so we mostly stuck to water based activities. We rented a boat two days on a trot at Thunderbird Lake marina, which is only accessible to Cherokee Village residents and guests, and it was the cheapest, easiest and most pleasant boat rental experience we ever had. The house / yard are well maintained but you will envy all the neighbors with their decks and clear lake shore. Unfortunately, this property does not have a deck. In a picture it looked like it might, but it's actually a decrepit boat. In all fairness they did not claim they did and we should have zoomed in a lot more on the pic! The lake access itself is overgrown with vegetation, which makes even fishing difficult. This of course will not prevent the said water loving dog from diving into the muck every chance it gets and since there are no gates on the deck, as soon as you open any deck door, the dog will go straight down and into the lake ... and then you will need to hose down that dog because it's covered in swamp, but guess what, there is not water hose hooked up anywhere outside, so you need to get your swampy dog cleaned up with a bucket and a wash cloth. Also, no fire pit. So, it needs just a bit of super easy TLC and it will be a 5*.
