AWFUL Experience!!!!!!
UNSAFE and DESOLATE area-VERY RUDE HOST!
LEFT after staying less than 24 hours for a booked 5 day stay-LOST 2000 EUROS- it was that BAD! !
We arrived in the early evening and the area looked sketchy. Throughout the evening there were VAGRANTS going through the trash cans in the front of the house. From 4-5 am there was a van parked with its lights on directly in front of the house and the person in the driver's seat kept looking in the front door of the home. The area seems to be abandoned with VAGRANTS IN THE AREA KNOW IT IS AN AIRBNB PROPERTY. Our family felt very unsafe! We are from New York City and do not scare easily.
Do not be fooled by the photo of the beautiful backyard. On all sides, the surrounding homes are abandoned & overgrown with trash in their yards. Small thing, that's not a grass lawn in the photo, but astroturf.
We could not leave fast enough, LOST our 2000 euro and had to incur new costs to find another place for our stay.
Our family has stayed in many home rental properties and has always had a wonderful and welcoming experience, with many wonderful touches-Not here!
I texted the host that we needed to take a later train from Paris to Bordeaux because my son was ill with food poisoning. She responded to text her one hour before arrival. I texted her several hours notifying her of our arrival and she replied with a RUDE text, which I let go. However, when we arrived at the property after our travels, the HOST SCOLDED our family repeatedly claiming we made her wait (which we did not). She said, "GOOD RIDDANCE TO YOU". She proceeded to scold us around the entire home as she showed us around, "Don't do this, Don't touch that..." My husband and I are professionals in our mid-fifties with grown children and our own home, (not a group of young kids who she fears will wreck the home), yet she continued to be VERY RUDE & condescending. We were nothing but nice to her, in spite of her treatment towards us. She impatiently handed us a 3 page double-sided itemized checklist of every item in the 3 story home & made us sign immediately, even though we just arrived. When we asked it there was any public transport nearby to the city center or a place for coffee or groceries she was was not at all interested in helping us. I feel I have a duty to inform others-Our family felt VERY UNSAFE in the area, the area is desolate. We LOST our 2000 EURO. You are in the MIDDLE of NOWHERE. In my opinion, the pictures of the home are very deceiving.