The Good: Mariana's place was even better than the pictures. It was straight out of design magazine. Really loved the beautiful deck space! She also left us enough clean water the entire time we were there which was very convenient for us.
The Bad: From the beginning Mariana and I seemed to have different expectations. Our biggest difference was in regards to luggage we left in the foyer of her apt bldg. Long story short we needed some where to store our luggage for 2 days while we were at the beach. After reaching out to Mariana more than 36hrs before we left and not receiving any reply we asked the 2 doorman if it would be appropriate to leave our luggage and both were agreeable so we left our things there. Messaged Mariana again letting her know we did this and by then we were unfortunately at the airport when she replied saying it would not be okay because of building admin rules. Ultimately we were charged 160 Usd for the penalty fee however she was never able to provide us any documentation of this fee or never provided us a receipt afterwards. In addition she would not release our luggage until after we paid her. But worst of all, told us we would be responsible for the doorman losing his job if we didn't pay. We ended up being cornered into paying because we needed our luggage and in no way wanted to jeopardize someone's job who was just trying to help us.
Essentially we felt manipulated and this not the type of interaction I want with a host. It did end up putting a damper on our vacation as it took time and extra effort to solve this problem.
We were really excited to stay here after reading all the glowing reviews but we were surprised at the poor treatment we received. Hopefully this is a one time case.