Unfortunately things did not go well on this stay, and this is the first unfavorable review I've written out of my many stays in Airbnb's.
First, I was put in a room that was a good deal shabbier and not the red room shown in the photos that I booked for my stay. But the other rooms were occupied by other guests when I arrived so apart from finding somewhere else to stay late Saturday evening and tired, I took the room given. Second, the toilet in the only bathroom was not functional for most of my stay from Saturday to Tuesday which was inconvenient and uncomfortable to say the least.
When I mentioned politely to Maria Eugenia as I was leaving this morning that the toilet still wasn't functional, she said that it had been a big problem for her for the last several days but did not apologize to me for the inconvenience, then immediately began to insist that another guest had found dog pee in the bathroom that morning and that there was no way it was her dog who had done it so it must have been mine. My dog travels all over the world with me and has stayed in hotels and Airbnb's and with friends without problems, she also goes to work with me, and is fully house trained; and, during my stay here I took my dog outside first thing every morning to relieve herself before I even went in the bathroom myself and she was never out of my sight. So it was really distressing to be told repeatedly that my dog did something that honestly didn't happen.
Anyway I spent the three nights here not super happy, but talked myself into staying since it was a short three nights and I was in a great neighborhood so just go with the flow and be accepting of the situation, in large part because I wanted to be gracious to Maria, an elderly host renting rooms in her once glamorous home. I even bought Maria a big pointsettia plant to be friendly and to brighten up her home while I was out for a walk in the neighborhood my first day there. In the end I don't know, maybe something was lost in translation, it just would have been nice to hear something like "so sorry about the plumbing problems, thank you for your understanding, thanks for staying and enjoy the rest of your travels". But the lack of apology for the inconvenience with the plumbing problems and then the insistence that my dog had peed in the bathroom when I brought up the plumbing problems before leaving this morning after an already uncomfortable stay was really awkward and left me feeling sad and uneasy about the entire experience.