From five stars to two!! This would have been a really positive review for a cute and cozy apartment in a great neighbourhood in Paris. However, after we checked out we received a barrage of very spiteful, aggressive and ultimately confusing messages from the host, describing their home in a state we didn't actually leave it. I have never in all my airbnb days experienced anything like it. I have suggested to the host to write a more detailed checkout list beyond "tidy up a little" to avoid future disappointment. For us that meant, make the bed, put towels in hamper, dishes washed, vacuum, garbage out and counters and table wiped - however we were told we were "...the worst guests I’ve ever had...I pity the next people who welcome you... you are gross people!". We also used two of the five rolls of toilet paper in our stay and were accused of "stealing" toilet paper "Did you steal my toilet paper ??? WHAT THE FUCK"...
We stayed here with our curious 18mth old and did have to move a few seemingly precious knick knacks higher up the bookshelf so they didn't risk breaking, and I perhaps didn't put them back in exactly the right spots as I was yelled at for moving their stuff "why did you touch and move everything??!".
Don't be fooled by the gesture of "Make yourself at home" & "Help yourself to any food", instead my advice is to TAKE PICTURES and don't TOUCH or EAT ANYTHING or risk aggressive messages (n.b we actually didn't eat any of their food but were told "all was missing"???). I have learnt my lesson and will always be taking pictures when I checkout of places as what Chloë described was a complete crime scene and I had no proof to share with them on how we actually left it.
What disappoints me the most is that Chloë was so nice and accomodating the whole way through, but then flipped to downright mean and threatening in one second, and gave us no room to explain ourselves or work anything out before instantly leaving us a no doubt very harsh and unfair review. And now I'm left with little choice but to publicly speak about this experience. The ending of this airbnb stay is going to haunt and confuse me for the rest of time!!