I really am not going to mention anything about the place, how clean, safe, comfortable etc it was, as we did not get to actually stay there.
The host cancelled our booking at the last minute, well actually not even last minute, an hour after the mentioned check-in time, while we were waiting for the host to contact us back, as she told us before.
We had booked this place about a month back and planned our long weekend for a quick getaway. We reached a nearby place to the house where we were getting our lunch, I called the host up to check how is it going, if the place is ready or not. Also asked her if we could check out an hour late, since we are asked to check in an hour late, which seemed a fair ask to us. However, what I got is, 'that is not going to happen', we really did not understand for that. But anyway, we were then asked to wait for her to give us a call back, as she was getting the place ready. So we waited in our car, just a km away from the place for her call, only to get an abrupt notification, an hour later that our booking is cancelled, which was also an hour after the actual check in time on the listing.
So, we here were left with no option but to drive back to our home, the plans were obviously ruined. We tried looking for other places, which obviously were going to cost us more, need some more drive etc. It took our entire evening to finally get some other place with the help of one kind representative of Airbnb, who helped us a lot in sorting this out, so many thanks to her.
But, this definitely was a nightmare of an experience. I will not make any comments on why she must have cancelled on us on the last moment, without thinking what we are going to do. What if someone has an emergency of some kind, especially in this tough COVID time.
Anyway, hopefully she realizes that this definitely is not the way a hosting business is done !!