From beginning to end, staying at Andrew's studio was incredibly stressful.
The studio is a beautifully refurbished basement flat with all the mod-cons you'd need. simple, utilitarian and nicely decorated.
This listing originally stated that it had a queen sized bed and a floor mattress. upon arriving at the property, there was only a queen sized bed. me and my partner were in town for work whilst staying here and we choose to sleep in seperate beds. This is why we pick accomodation with two beds while traveling. it's not something I feel like I need to explain when i book a place with two beds.
What followed next was an unhealthy dose of gaslighting from the host. I was told there was no space for two beds, that I should have told him the status of my relationship and that I should have payed him an extra fee. - there was no mention of an extra fee or a pre-booking needed for this mattress. the property was simply listed as having two beds. Andrew continued to make it known to me that this was my fault and eventually did order me a floor mattress which I waited for the next day... The first 24 hours at this property had me in tears of stress as I had a very large work weekend coming up and at this point did not know if I was able to even sleep at this property. Airbnb could not rehome me as properties in this area are scarce and I had to be available at work for very long days over the whole weekend.
The host changed the listing over to having one bed, not two while we were staying there.
when the mattress finally arrived it turned out to be an xs mattress topper which one of us slept on with all the bedding we found in the house on top of it. we bought blankets from the local bed store.
You should also be aware that there is a laundry and then a seperate entrance to the flat which has a key, not an electronic lock. I was confused about this and left the flat door between the laundry and the flat open one day, slept naked and then learnt that actually - one of the areas is public and someone will come in and do their laundry. -it's not really a problem but there is no explanation on this on the house paperwork. when you leave, lock the flat door separately and take the key with you.
on the last night of our stay we were locked out of the flat as a cleaner had come in and used the laundry, we had just bumped out of our event and had to wait for an hour and a half to get back into the flat. To Andrew's credit he answered our message very quickly and arranged for a locksmith to come. We also were given access to his other airbnb to wait for the locksmith to arrive so we were lucky that that was available.
If this experience taught me anything it's that I need to book a hotel for work. This stay was stressful and exhausting.