Before I proceed, I just wanted to say for anyone who reads this I SAID TO THE HOSTS IN THE MESSAGE BEFORE WE STAYED THAT WE DID NOT WANT TO STAY AT THE PROPERTY, however were forced to anyway.
It all started when we were looking at places to stay in Hobart and for whatever reason, it was pretty abismall. There was one place that seemed to be "okay" but for what is was, it was pretty damn expensive for not much. The next day nothing else came up so we decided it was the place to stay. We reached out asking if we could possibly check in earler and got a generic message from someone who handles the property, which would be sent to us again. At this point I wasn't really happy with what was going on. I wanted to get a refund and go somewhere else and I was told I had to reach out to air bnb. I got in contact with them for them to say it's at the owners discretion. When i copy/pasted the insert from air bnb, i felt like a little kid in front of a parent when i got told the anwser "non refundable". I also got told that i was preventing them from getting bookings for a number of "weeks" . We were in contact from the 21st to the 25th. That doesn't really seem like a number of weeks to me, but anyway. The next message i sent was calling them out on it being maybe one week at most but more like 4 or so days and they basically didn't care.
I reached out one more time to say that we're getting in quite early as we had to get an earlier flight and we would love to check in even slightly early to save us carrying our stuff and getting into some nicer, more suitable clothing. I basically got the same answer as before. So we went and got breakfast, went to a park and just relaxed. After that we thought you know what, we might just go try. So we rocked up much earlier then was designated and you guessed it, no one was there and the place was already done. Already in a terrible mood after being forced to stay at a place we didn't want to, we looked around. I couldn't help it but think we were getting charged an exorbitant fee for cleaning a tiny unit!
May be a tiny overshare, but i sweat quite a lot at night sometimes and going away is one of those simple pleasures of getting my sheets changed if i need to, without myself doing it. I reached out to ask if we could get a change of linen. They don't facilitate that on a 3 night stay. I also promptly found out the doors do not have locks.
Putting ALL of that aside, the location of the actual unit in relation to Salamanca, where we were primarily was okay. However the unit is on a main road so you hear EVERYTHING. Cars going past, people talking about their day, dogs you bloody name it. It's also at the back of two cafes and shares a side pass with one. So at all times of the day you have people up and down the side of the house that you can hear, triggering the lighting. You've got people coming into the car spaces in front of you, people going into the cafes, talking oh my god it was TOO much. Like if you're after any sort of privacy, DONT STAY HERE.
Finally, because of the stupidly high cleaning fee, we decided that we weren't going to do any dishes, we had basically put all our rubbish in the uber eats bags and left dishes in the sink. We didn't feel like we got our moneys worth for the stay, but goddamn we were going to make sure we were going to get our money from the cleaning fee!