If you are looking for a quick stay without using much facilities, you can consider booking this place. However, if you are looking for a comfortable long stay where you can use the listed amenities freely without being constantly scrutinised, this is not the place for you.
Adrien was flexible with us leaving our luggage at his place early as we had an early train when we reached Montreal. However, when we reached his place, he was very distant while communicating with us, and there was a sense of unfamiliarity, which made us feel unwelcomed.
When we came back after our check-in time, he was out, so we had to ask him if we could use the kitchen over the Airbnb chat, only to get a response when he reached home, which was several hours later, way past our dinner time.
When using the kitchen to prepare our meals, we felt that he was constantly eyeing on us, to make sure that we weren’t making a mess, which made us feel really uncomfortable and stressed. We made sure to keep the kitchen clean as we washed our dishes immediately after meal times, but the pans and boards that he used were always left lying around unwashed. There were instances where we wanted to use a clean pan but there were none from the countertop, thus we resorted to taking from the drawer. However, we were stopped by him and that was when we have to wait for him to do his dishes before we can use the pans.
We always tried to be conscious of our noise levels, whispering after dinner hours and back in our rooms, and did not use the washrooms during the quiet hours. However, even after 11pm when Adrien uses the washroom, he would close the door very loudly, which was so ironic.
On our penultimate night, we asked him if we could use the washer and dryer on our last night, which he agreed to. However at 9.15pm on the agreed day, we wanted to use the washer but was reprimanded by him. We were out the entire day, thus we could not do our laundry earlier. He said that his neighbours would definitely hear us doing the laundry. However, we made sure that we would finish our laundry before the quiet hour at 11pm. We negotiated by asking if we could do our laundry at 7am the next day, since the quiet hours are till 7am, but it was violently rejected by him. He reluctantly let us use the washer in the end, and we finished our laundry by 10.40pm. He was visibly unhappy and gave us the cold shoulder.
To top it all off, we were requested to head back into our room at 9.50pm when we were in the middle of eating our fruits at the dining table, while discussing about our itinerary for the next day. We were taken aback with this sudden request so we just headed to our rooms quietly without questioning him. We were conscious of our noise level the entire time and it did not make sense to us that we were chased back to our room when he was playing his show on the computer at a volume which was way louder than our voices. The living space was something that we paid for as well, yet we did not get to enjoy it at all.
Our last straw was during check out, where he then communicated that we were not considerate to him during our stay. We rebutted that we did not break any house rules and kept our voices hushed the entire time when we were in the house in order not to disturb him. He said that there are unspoken house rules that we should have kept in mind, but we certainly did not face any of these issues with all of the Airbnb places before his. We only received praises for being quiet and respectful guests. To quote him, he highlighted that we should ‘just not give him a review, or else he would give us one back’, in which the tone of him saying that was highly negative and threatening.
The location was good and the place was generally clean, but we certainly did not have a pleasant stay there due to the uncomfortable situations with Adrien. While there are always two sides to the story, we believe that we have given a lot of facts to rationalise objectively, based on our experience with him.
Ultimately, we do not recommend to stay here if you are looking for somewhere more than just a place to sleep.