Winnie’s place is really well-located and she tried to make my traveling easy by picking me up at the bus station and giving me place to store my food in her cupboard and fridge.
However, I feel it is false advertising to call her place “ground floor” and “has a lot of light” because the room is really dark most of the time and the whole apartment is really low and only has natural lighting till around 2pm. It is more like a semi-basement.
Winnie did try to interact with me and be sociable but I feel sometimes she could be too talkative and it was a bit uncomfortable to be around her since she literally talks from one thing to another nonstop. At many occasions she told me to do or not to do certain things to take care of her not so well-maintained apartment, including always wiping the basin after use, hanging my coat in the bathroom because she thinks it was too wet - she did bang my door and yell my name to make sure I did it the way she wanted me to, etc, which I find really stressful.
I am surprised she got so many five star reviews, maybe most people stayed for a short period - I stayed for 17 nights. I have stayed through Airbnb in other parts of Canada, the US, Mexico, Australia, Hong Kong, China, Nepal, Indonesia and India. And I hosted more than 100 people from all over the world when I lived in Montreal and Beijing. This was not the longest stay I had with Airbnb but it was definitely the most difficult.
I just hope future guests would make more informed decision when they consider booking with Winnie.