One of the reasons I chose this house is because the description said it had old air conditioning that worked “but may not be cold enough for some”. We were going to the house in December so I figured this would be sufficient. A few days before we checked in we got the standard check in email which said the air conditioning didn’t work. I would have liked to know this before I booked as I probably wouldn’t have booked this house.
When we arrived we found that the house was a lot more run down than it appeared online. There were large nails sticking up out of loose boards on the balcony. Most of the fly screens were broken, with large gaps between the screen and the frame, and a few were missing entirely. One of the nights we were there was really hot and we had to keep some of the bedroom windows closed because there were no fly screens. We still got eaten by mosquitoes though- presumably they got in through the big gaps in the broken flyscreens.
Alongside the rundown state of the house it was also really dirty. There was a layer of dirt on every surface including the doonas, the couches, the tables etc. There were lots of cobwebs so it seemed like a long time since the house had had a good clean.
As a final annoyance, the owners didn’t even provide the basics such as toilet paper and dishwashing liquid so we had to go buy these from the general store.
I wouldn’t recommend staying here.