**DO NOT STAY HERE, THIS PLACE IS NOT SAFE**
I had a traumatizing incident at this Airbnb and the police had to come at 5 in the morning.
As soon as I arrived to the Airbnb and got out of the Lyft, there was a man watching me from the store front and as I’m getting the keys out of the lock box he’s still watching me and goes “if you need anything let me know”
The bedroom has a door right beside the bed which I initially thought led out to a balcony but it opens up to a roof which has stairs leading to it. The lock on the door has stickers that say “locked” or “open” and I put it in the locked position and try to see if the door handle was opening from the outside. It wasn’t locking and I felt super sketched out about this so I put the bedside table in front of this door.
I showered, left for dinner and the same man from that store was again watching me get into my Lyft.
I came back around 12am and went to bed. At 4:30 am I got woken up to the sound of the door opening and hitting the bedside table so I automatically screamed, jump up and out of bed and flipped on all the lights. 2 minutes later, the person tried opening the door again and all I saw was his eyes through the crack of the door so I immediately called the cops.
The cops were at the unit within 5 minutes and I had already messaged the host at this point letting them know someone had just tried to enter the Airbnb twice. If I had not put that table in front of the door, he would’ve been able to open it and who knows what would’ve happen.
Khalid’s first response was “no one has access to that door” and followed it up 15 minutes after saying they watched the video footage and someone did try to enter. There are stairs that are leading to this roof and directly to the door.. the cops were easily able to get to the unit via these stairs along with whoever tried to enter.
This place is not safe and I had a bad vibe about it from the moment I checked in. I wish I had trusted my gut instincts and not stayed here. All Khalid cares about is getting his 5 star review and not the safety of his guests. He had the audacity to argue with me that lock is an auto lock and that’s it’s not possible someone was able to enter even after seeing the video footage.
I am completely traumatized from this whole incident as I’m a solo female traveller and this place put me in danger. I highly recommend you not staying here.
I left and had the cops escort me out to a nearby hotel and I had left my expensive sunglasses and charger behind so I messaged Khalid to ask him to drop it off at the nearby hotel as I didn’t feel comfortable returning and he was so rude in his response back saying “relax, dont take such a rude tone with me. If found, they’ll be at the store and you can arrange for someone to pick it up”
I highly recommend you do not stay here.. This place is not safe. Aside from the traumatizing incident, the neighbour beside was having a party and you can hear everything from the loft. This listing doesn’t even deserve a 1 star for how everything was handled..