My partner and I booked this accomodation months in advance of our trip.
Less than 24 hours before our arrival Vincent contacted me and requested a $350 deposit be transferred to him directly (outside of Airbnb platform) and told me if I wasn’t willing to pay it my stay would be cancelled.
Because it was so last minute I felt like I had no choice but to pay the fee or risk not having accomodation for my trip.
Paying this unauthorised fee the night before my trip ate into the money that I had put aside for my holiday with my partner. It meant that instead of going out to restaurants to eat while we were there, we were eating frozen pizza at our accomodation instead.
There were issues with the cooling system during our stay which didn’t work effectively. The TV in the living room was also a problem as it is quite old. It wouldn’t connect to Netflix, and we couldn’t cast anything to the TV.
Accomodation is as described, though notably it is smaller than it looks in the pictures.