Overall poor host communication and check in/out. wouldn’t stay here again.
Checkin required coordinating timing to meet up with a person and be handed the keys, which is a bit inconvenient. It’s even more inconvenient if your travel plans change or are at later hours. We had to ask a family member to go get the keys at the last minute, messaging the host as our flight took off because the listed number on the Airbnb page didn’t work.
Similarly, there were no checkout instructions for what to do with the keys when we left, and we didn’t receive a response before leaving the morning of checkout.
During our stay, the host had a cable repairman come by in the morning unannounced to fix the TV, which we weren’t even using. We checked our phones and the host had sent a message 10 minutes beforehand telling us the repairman was coming (and offering to cancel if we didn’t want him to) but we didn’t see it before he arrived. So we let the repairman in, confused, and had to wait for him to finish before we could leave for the day.
We asked for a slightly later checkout than 10am so we could enjoy the one day of nice weather on the patio, but they denied the request saying there were other guests arriving that day. But there weren’t. We could see the wide open availability in the Airbnb calendar. We asked again, pointing this out, and they said they would consider it. We just chose to change some plans and leave on time.
The condo was clean, tasteful, and seemed new. but we generally felt was overpriced for what it was — the common area hallways smelled smokey/musty, the living area was quite small, and there were some quality quirks (like the dishwasher tipping entirely out of the counter when the drawer was open and had dishes in it.)
The location is awesome, between kits beach and all the great food and shops on west 4th. and the little bit of time we got on the patio without rain was very nice.