We made a last minute booking due to a cancellation in another Airbnb, and unfortunately this place shouldn’t have been available to be booked on this date.
When we arrived at 7pm the house had a strong smell that was masked with a bunch of air freshener sticks. We yet didn’t know that the house had just been fumigated.
When we saw the enormous first half-alive cockroach, we realised that the smell was probably from fumigation and we felt unsafe to stay there any longer. Then we looked around and in a glance we found 4 more dead cockroaches. We texted the host, who had been very friendly until that point (she even sent someone around to bring a frying pan and a colander that weren’t available in the kitchen) and she replied:
“It’s normal”
“It's scheduled specific period it be done as in all accommodations.”
“You can see it in the entrance document “ (This document was never presented to us otherwise we would have chosen not to stay there).
It seems the place had a pest and the host had knowingly let us stay, putting our wellbeing at risk. Which is not only unacceptable but negligent too.
+ For a “Luxury” accommodation, the bed wasn’t done when we arrived and the towels were in a plastic bag in the top of a cupboard. The previous couple of days were very windy and it was a half fallen fence in the patio with pointy sticks everywhere. In addition, the let is placed at the ground floor and the main room is right by the street which makes it noisy and not that private.
We were coming to this accommodation, that it’s pricier than the average, for a treat and we found a place that wasn’t ready for hosting guests and a host that seemed very helpful until things turned wrong and she showed her true colours.
This place was a nightmare. We had to find a last minute hotel room for the night at 11pm.