I really wanted to love this airbnb place, but when I stayed here with my family for a week-long vacation, it seemed like there was something new to discover everyday (and not in a good way).
Pros: self-check in process was smooth and location is great.
Cons: The listing pictures are misleading as they haven't been updated and they are much better in the pictures than what we walked into for our stay.
Cleanliness was clearly an issue, similar to another review from a couple years back from another guest. The sofas seemed to never have been vaccuumed or cleaned, as the blue one had crumbs on it when we first arrived and the brown sofa was extremely dirty from directly sitting on the floor. The refrigerator wasn't properly cleaned out either when we first arrived. There was leftover expired ice cream in the freezer and an opened kombucha drink in the fridge. We ended up cleaning out the fridge before actually using it. Some further things that we noticed was that the master bathroom had mold growing on it as well as a half of the sliding shower door and handle were missing. The other bathroom's shower curtain was completely mildew-laden on the bottom and I had to change it out myself. There were also various holes in the wall around the home left from a previous long-term tenant, as the host stated, but they didn't bother to fix up before listing it on the airbnb and renting it out.
During our stay, we thought that the entire home was to us as indicated in the listing, however, its a two family and you get the upstairs unit. So it should really be changed along the lines of "entire apartment" instead. The downstairs guests had accessed our home one of the days as well as the cleaners coming over without warning another day, with no prior communication from the host to let us know that they would be entering. The neighbors were not friendly, and stopped us one of the mornings saying that quiet hours were until 11:30am, when legally on the weekday that we encountered them, quiet hours were until 7AM. Whenever we would walk around the floors even to use the restroom if it was early or late in the morning, we would hear knocking on the floor from them hitting their ceiling to tell us to be quiet, which made us quite conscious.
If you are going to be booking with this host, please be clear in your communication. We asked for a late check out and confirmed if it would be okay for us to be there while the cleaners came. My family and I didn't think it was but the host confirmed it was okay for doing a late-check out and when the cleaning time came, as we were still in the home, the cleaners came, refused to clean and told us that they "didn't care what we discussed with Peter (the host), that most people check out at 11am and it was 1:30pm, so we needed to get out".
The only thing is the location of this listing; it's convenient and close to everywhere. However, I would not come back and stay here at this place again when I visit Vancouver the next time unfortunately.