We actually cancelled our booking a day early due to issues with the “pet friendly” offering for this property.
My parents have two elderly dogs who needed to shelter in the laundry over the very hot weekend we just experienced. I received a message from the host saying that my family had breached his rules and we need to put the dogs outside. The host has cameras around the outside of the property and was surveilling to ensure compliance with the rules.
This was a very uncomfortable realisation to think we were under surveillance and did not make me feel like a welcome or trusted guest.
I acknowledged that we had broken the rules of the listing by letting the dogs come inside from the heat and notified the host that we cannot leave the dogs outside on a 30+ degree day. The are elderly and one is a 9 year old bulldog. We decided to cancel our trip and leave a day early to not cause the dogs distress or worse.
We did not want to cause any more issues or stress between the host and my family and made the decision for the best of both parties.
The house itself is clean and beautiful. I did not get to stay in the house myself, as I was joining my family a day later, but from their comments, all was great with the house itself.