First of all: I really hate writing bad reviews. I think everyone is trying their best somehow. But this experience was by far the worst experience we have ever had in over 30 years travelling.
Location: The accommodation is located at the beginning of the peninsula, which means that it takes 40 min by car to get to Placencia town. The road is narrow and you can only drive slowly - yet itis very busy. The accommodation is also not directly on the beach, but behind another house, directly at the road.
The house: What is not described: Underneath the house a granny annexe was built. This gives a completely different privacy, because you feel constantly watched.
Arrival: We were received by the tenant of the annexe. Rather cool and little interested. First noticed directly that everywhere was still old food around. The refrigerator was full of old food and was not cleaned. It took us over an hour to remove empty beer crates, wine bottles, leftover food, garbage and other things. It was an outrage. We communicated this to the owner via whatsapp, who then briefly wrote an outrageous reply, which he immediately deleted - no reaction after that. It turns out that the garbage was from the owner himself. Disgusting.
Hygiene: After we were done with the disgusting kitchen, we noticed mold smell and all the insects coming out of the wooden walls. It was horrible: the mattresses all had mildew stains, the kisses were yellow with dirt and saliva or whatever. Larvae everywhere on the biden, the shower disgustingly moldy, insects everywhere. Then we also found the reason for the strange foul chemical smell: an insecticide that even kills scorpions on contact. The ingredients are banned in other countries and are carcinogenic. Wherever we looked: The hygienic conditions were worse than in local shacks. It was a nightmare.
Outside: So we thought that we might get compenstated at the outside for this impossible pad. Wrong. To the rear there is the busy street, on the right there is a huge construction site - right next to the house, the annexe apartment is also still a construction site on the outside. On a rotten plastic sunbed one may then look into a rusty concrete mixer and listen to the sound of machines and construction workers. A true tropical dream. Sand flies everywhere, saragssum without end, garbage (broken pieces, plastic and other dangerous objects) ... it is indescribable. The house is behind another bungalow - so no direct sea view. On the stairs of this bungalow the resident of the granny apartment dried his underpants.... optical special equipment? No one knows.
Owner / Communication: Brad had set up a whatsapp group. Probably he knew about the problems and therefore did not want to use the AirBnB chat. We did not want a fight and asked to cancel the booking for a full refund. He had an excuse for everything and didn't want to get involved in anything. He said he would take it up with AirBNB and everything would be great. Even photos he did not want to accept, told something about spare pillows and water stains from the AC ... Pointless to discuss with such a man. At this point, thanks again for the active support of AirBNB.
I cannot recommend this accommodation or this unspeakable owner. I would give -10 points if I could. This guy cost us 2 days of our expensive vacation. Hopefully this review will help otters not fall into the same trap. No value for any money.