I’d like to start off by saying that this is an extremely nice house and is great for large groups, the hosts communicate fantastically and the location is amazing.
Our group thoroughly enjoyed our stay apart from a few things;
- Firstly the linen isn’t provided and has to be either brought by yourself or organised ahead of time with a 3rd party company. There’s not too many people I know that travel internationally with their bed sheets and towels so there’s not much choice…… I would not recommend using the company that the hosts suggested as the cost to hire linen and towels for 5 people was $80 which I would not call fair or reasonable as we could have purchased that amount of linen from Kmart for that price. On top of that, upon making the beds we discovered that the sheets we had hired were covered in mould.
- Secondly, the vast majority of the cups and plates were extremely dirty and had to be washed before we could use them which was a bit of a pain, and there was quite a bit of dirt/bugs/grub that hadn’t been cleaned on a few of the accessories. It very much looked like the house merely got a surface wipe down occasionally rather than an actual clean.
- Thirdly, it is my understanding that “BNB” stands for “Bed and Breakfast”, this has been backed up by every other Airbnb I have ever stayed in. This Airbnb does not provide any breakfast or milk, and has a coffee machine but does not provide coffee beans for it.
This house is fantastic, but because of the above reasons it really came across as though it was run in quite a lazy way with the only intention to make as much money from it and make it as easy on the host/property manager as possible. I truly believe that if more Airbnb’s start making visitors either provide or organise linen etc then visitors will just stay in Hotels, which we will be doing in the future if that is the case.
It would not have taken much more work for this to be one of the best Airbnb listings we had ever stayed in.