This is (at best) a 4 bedroom, 7 bed home and it was described on AIrBNB as a 5 bedroom, 10 bed home. Reasons for the discrepancy (only discovered upon check-in):
1) the Master BR (with one King Bed--the owner erroneously calls this 2 beds) has an attached -- with no door between them, 8' by 10' walk-in closet which the owner chose to call a 5th BR. Into this very small space was crammed a bunk bed, a crib, a child's mattress on the floor, a rocking horse, an ironing board, and cheap wire shelving. This would be fine for a young child or even two children who needed to sleep near their parents. It was definitely not fine for out 35 year single female Production Manager who needed to make this her Bedroom and sleep in an (unmade up) lower bunk bed with all the other stuff crammed in. This meant she lived out of her suit case (the shelves were inaccessible due to the junk in the room); and it also meant there was no place for the clothes of the married couple who slept (again without privacy) in the MBR so they lived out of suitcases too. There are no dressers or other shelves in the MBR (not big, only 12' by 14') just big enough for the large King Bed, no night stands per se, no night stand lamps, no illumination other than a single, bare-light bulb overhead fixture in the room. The other BRs were also problematic.
2) The two other King Bed BRs are "adjoining" -- that is you must walk thru one BR to reach the other BR as there is only one door to the outer corridor which had a toilet/sink (no bath/shower). Thus all BRs except the one in the basement (see below) had to share just one shower/bath -- that is 8 people given that the owner says each King Bed is two beds (total=6) plus the bunk bed in the Master bedroom closet = total 8 people/8 beds -- per the owner. The musty basement (down a very rickety, narrow, circular, cheap staircase) contained one plain room with two twin beds in it (and two chairs). That's it -- no other furnishings at all -- i.e. also no place to put clothes. Keep in mind that we had booked this place for a week for 6 business employees attending a conference in Berlin -- one married couple and 4 single employees in their 30's and 40's.
3) The owner had been advised of all of this info before the reservation was made and, though clearly this house was not going to work for our group, he never advised us that there would be problems, due to all of the above, and let us pay in full and check-in (while he was gone on vacation in Greece) -- only to encounter and deal with all of these issues (and more, too numerous to detail here) as well.
4) Absolutely all the dishware, glassware, cookware and utensils needed cleaning -- there was a problem with the dishwasher & upon check-in it was obvious that neither the prior tenant nor the landlord (who was away on vacation in Greece with no one left in charge of the property) had done anything to wash/clean up the above items.
Patrick needs to address lots of issues and revise and make accurate his AirBNB listing before he rents this home out again!
Thanks to AIrBNB (and especially to the case worker, Odessa) for arranging the 50% refund we got -- it was well-deserved for the many nuisances and lack of cleanliness, privacy, instructions and general neglect we experienced trying to rent this house for a week long business conference.