Pros:
- Location. Can’t go wrong with Main Street.
Cons:
- Very dark unit, particularly around the dining table. It is darker than it looks in the photos. If I had known how dark this unit was, I wouldn’t have booked it based on this alone because I simply need more light. There’s a window next to the dining table but you hardly get any light because the house next door is so close it blocks all the light.
- There is a toddler running around upstairs, in a wood frame home, so it can get annoying. Sometimes he runs around for hours throughout the day.
- Running out of hot water in the evenings. This happened more than a handful of times when I was trying to give my daughter a bath and I couldn’t.
- Going all around the block to take out the garbage and compost because the backyard gate is locked.
The stay could’ve been better, but the post-checkout experience was terrible. We usually do a thorough cleaning before we leave, but we only did a light cleaning this time because we ran out of time (but I paid a $100 cleaning fee, isn’t that supposed to cover… cleaning?), but Andrea got aggressive and immediately slapped us with additional fees. She claims she was only requesting an additional $400, but I also got a second email from Airbnb that the host was requesting $525, which either way is $500-$625 in what is essentially cleaning fees, which is beyond excessive and extortionary. She claims my family and I “absolutely destroyed” the unit, which is simply untrue. My family and I would never destroy property. Luckily I had documentation of the unit right before we checked out to prove that nothing was destroyed. She’s confused dirt & grime and normal wear & tear for absolute destruction, when the unit didn’t even come with a floor vacuum and mop (there was a vacuum, but it only came with a crevice attachment). Most of the photos she complained about were things you’d expect a cleaner to clean (like drippings on a stove, a dirty toilet seat). Also, I really didn’t appreciate how she left a review for me before I could even respond to see if we could work toward a resolution (which I did happily compensate more for the extra cleaning, and AirBnb didn’t request additional fundss, so it was more than fair). It’s been stressful to say the least.
So if you want peace in your life, make sure you clean the unit spotless before you leave even though you already pay a $100 cleaning fee, or just look for another listing. And make sure you document the unit before you leave, just in case.