Scenic, but also humid, and probably buggy. At the time the Huntingtons lived there, the east windows had ocean views, but in the ensuing 80 years or so, the dunes have piled and trees grown up, so you can hear the ocean but not see it.
They lived there in the winter, so it wasn’t always hot.
Unless those rooms were very, very large, it looks to me like a lot of people would be crowded in there during the times the Huntingtons lived there, even if it was only seasonal.
It sounds like what Oregon Dunes was like. There was a campground there, but in order to see the ocean, you had to climb up over these very, very tall dunes. And then you had to hope for no fog. FS got lost there when we were getting ready to move back to civilization. He was on leave before being stationed in Germany. He had fun, though!