Run away from Corolla Classic… Run away from Corolla Classic Vacations!!! We have rented from Corolla Classic Vacations for years since going to the outer-banks for 33 years. This company has really gone down hill. No customer service, will not call you back with questions or needing help. Rented the same house for years. Two separate occasions they have lost our booking only to find out a few months before vacation. Most recently we have worked with rep to have home rented and assured twice in phone conversations it was booked for us. While waiting on new contracts from CCV home was rented out for the time we needed. They will not return calls or refund deposit. Have called multiple times with no response. We are devastated and will need to cancel our vacation. We have been forgiving with their past screw ups but are done with this company.

BEWARE before you rent from Corolla… BEWARE before you rent from Corolla Classic Vacations by Vacasa!!!! “Cancellation Policy: If you cancel within 24 hours of booking, you'll receive a full refund. After that (unless stated otherwise in the home description and unit-specific terms), if you cancel 30 or more days before the first night of your reservation, you'll receive a refund of any rental payments you've made, minus the booking fee.” We reserved a beach house in June 2022 for the next year June 2023. My first payment was $4226 and another payment due in 2023. I cancelled that reservation 6 weeks later. They charged me 10% of my total bill $803. That’s some “booking fee” for them considering the house was only off the market 6 weeks one year in advance.

Worst Rental Experience Ever Worst rental experience ever. My wife and I have been going to the OBX for decades, love Corolla and always stay there. We rented this property because we wanted to be on the beach and ocean. It looks fantastic on-line and we paid about $9,000/week in June 2021. The house was plagued with maintenance issues which culminated with an infestation of flying bugs. We were there a week when I woke up and found the entire 3rd floor coated in dead or dying insects. We know the OBX, we know about the insects. This was literally an infestation level. I spent 90 minutes wiping down the counters, vacuuming the furniture and sweeping the floor. I amassed huge piles of bugs in the process, certainly in the thousands. My wife had cleaned the entire floor the day before so this was all from one night. All of the insects were the most highly concentrated by any ceiling vents. The ceiling was also covered in various spots by these same, mostly dead bugs. My wife and my brother would not stay any longer after this. I had promptly contacted VACASA (we rented through Corolla Classic Vacations) all week about various failings in maintenance and finally with this. I told them we were leaving and we needed a refund. They kept trying to play it off as 'this always happens' and 'it's the OBX we get bugs from time to time.' I told them to look at the photos and films I had taken - this was an explosion of bugs, clearly one more case of poor maintenance that led to infestation. It seemed very clear that at least initially they never looked at the photos and films I took. I also raised the other maintenance issues in my final conversations with them. They said 'you should have reported those items' and I told them I had called VACASA as they were identified. We stayed 6 days of the 14 we rented. I asked for a prorated refund of 8 days based on the actual cost paid. This is quite reasonable. They gave us one week back but only because THEY RERENTED THE PROPERTY FOR THE WEEK WE VACATED. They stated clearly that had it not rented again we would get nothing. At the bottom are a list of the maintenance issues we noted. Many of these items were clearly long-standing, no one could be bothered to fix them. I understand this is a rental property and keeping it occupied is a priority but even at the expense of the renters? $9,000 per week and they could not be bothered to fix routine maintenance items?Gate on deck is broken and the horizontal board for the top of the fence is off. Plenty of nails sticking out. There were about four other boards of this type missing on the side of the house facing the ocean A grill that was mounted on a steel post into concrete on the side had rusted out completely and snapped off. It was just laying there. A new portable grill was under the house, this was a known issue. The hot tub lid was broken. The cover part that's vinyl was torn and the internal part that is Styrofoam was broken off Plenty of garden hose just pulled all over the property when we got here clearly no one even cared to put it away I found two trash cans full of trash that I had to put in the driveway as soon as we got there. As a renter who's paid a small fortune for this house I can't believe I had to put out the trash for the last tenant Multiple lamps and lights throughout the house did not work. Also at least a half dozen of the blinds were broken in one fashion or another.The coffee pot was filthy when we checked in and the number of the dishes were dirty we had to put them all in the dishwasher and run it The closet door of the folding closet door in the master bedroom on the south side of the second floor barely worked and when you open it it had an ear piercing screech The ice machine was not set up properly and so it was fully blocked with ice.The fireplace was full of ash, no one had cleared it for a long time. I was given two codes to get into the house when we first checked in. That was at best confusing The cipher lock stopped working one night. It was completely dead. I was required to call maintenance and they came the next day and had to reset it. I asked what we do if it happens again and no one's in the house to let us in. The maintenance guy told us if we "complain enough they'll allow me to replace it." This was rather infuriating as it is a safety issueAlso there were issues with insects since we checked in but what occurred the final night was over the top and an explosion of bugs. My wife had vacuumed the entire top floor the day before so all of the bugs in the photos were from one night - I initially went upstairs around 3:30 AM and first saw the explosion of dead bugs.I had been looking at buying one of the houses further north on the beach but dropped the matter completely as all the properties in this neighborhood were maintained by the same company. You have been warned.

Whispering Pines 9 We have been going to Corolla Light for the past 20 years. We recently stayed at Whispering Pines 9 and were very disappointed. Stove wasn’t properly cleaned and caught on fire. 1980s refrigerator took 3 days to make ice and cool below 40 degrees and that was after the technician hard reset it. Hot tub never worked for the whole week. Property abuts route 12 and it is the only house that the trees either died or were cut down. The only positive of the house it came with a beach storage locker, which was needed as it is far from the beach.

COVID Cancel We booked a house in January 2020 for a wedding which was to take place in May, 2020. This of course was before the outbreak of COVID 19. We placed the customary deposit on the rental and did not purchase the insurance. Access to the area where the house was located was reopened the same week we had booked. We requested a refund due to the circumstances - COVID, seniors, quarantine requirements, etc. Not to mention the short notice of the availabilty. I think due to the unusual circumstances, a refund of our deposit would have been reasonable.