Check-in wasn’t relaxed. Being stuck in traffic after a 10 hour drive . The host ( friend of owner) sent us a message to hurry up because she had an appointement. Upon arrival nobody was there.
When she arrived she told us a lot of negative stories about previous ‘ bad ‘ guests. She asked us to wash the towels before leaving, because the next guests would arrive 3 days after us ( I was like: 3 days is that not enough to clean a house ???)
As dat as concerns the house: there is a lot of high tech stuff, but that can’t hide that this house is bot the high level perfection and luxury you should expect.
Door to the studio jammed against the wall and was difficult to open. Half of the house was NOT operated by Alexa ( which left me with the question : why even bother. Do it all the way or just don’t)
The fridge was left full of crumbs, the jacuzzi bath tub was filthy, black stuff coming out of the holes. I have no words for it. I had to clean it myself thoroughly before even considering getting in.
The beds were very small and matrasses could have been better.
In the pool there were cracks.
I can go on for hours.
And the the piece the resistance : No warm water for 3 days. It was the weekend, we did get a lot of communication but no solution. First they balled the previous guests, then it turned to be a broken part that had to be replaced. Also we did not appreciate the fact that the host gave the keys of the house to a technician who would come by a second time on another day. It felt like getten forced in being ok with several people just coming in and out as they pleased.
That is not respecting our privacy .
It’s one thing waking up with a strange man looking up in the window in the morning ( who turned out to be the Gardner) , and having the host coming over in your vacation home 2 times ( yep you read it right, TWICE !) , but yet another person you don’t know sniffling around upstairs ( which the host definitely did when we were out the whole day)
But my advice would be: keep it simple, we don’t need 50 different kitchen aplliances cluttering the kitchen, but then no milk steamer.🤷🏻‍♀️
Get rid of Alexa.. Give people their privacy. They are paying for it.
And most important : make sure it is 200% spotlessly clean.
TO END on a POSITIVE note: the house is spacious and the garden is big and nice. The pool is good too, apart from the little damages here and there. The airco was a bliss .