Booking was made for my fiancé. Her experience and thoughts...
Never in my life have I had such a strange and uncomfortable stay with a host.
Being an avid Airbnb user, I booked Kath’s place after reading her reviews and bit about her and believed I would be staying in a private ensuite room in her home.
On booking Kath requested an arrival guesstimate which we set as 3-5pm.
Upon arrival, we realised Kath was not home and had left no lockbox instructions to enter the property.
We attempted to make contact and realised we had been sent an Airbnb message at 5am the arriving morning stating ‘as she had received no arrival time confirmation she would be out until approximately 5.45pm.
So we contacted her and waited. When she finally arrived she refused to speak or address us until we had unpacked and gathered ourselves in front of her like school children then she began her strange prepared speech.
Starting with zero apology for the lateness,Kath addressed us by saying “I’m sure you were assuming I was at work until just now, I was not! I was playing a game you’ve probably never heard of!” So we said okay. And asked what the game is ? And she said “exactly”. And then stood there for a number of minutes in the doorway. I asked if she could lead the way inside, and she started with the instructions for the lockbox. Reading the numbers out to us, I asked if she could please repeat them so I could store them on my phone and she quite rudely stated that “if you could not remember these numbers you do NOT deserve to be here!!” Making me quite uncomfortable.
We then were allowed to finally enter the home and pulled our bags inside and removed our shoes. After a four hour drive and long wait in the car we were very ready to use the bathrooms and relax for a moment, unpack. But Kath immediately said (again quite chastising) “well aren’t you going to come for the tour?” So we got up, and followed her around her small home. It is a nice place. The bathroom unfortunately advertised as an ensuite was not, however what we believed to be the spare room across the hall did have its own shower and we were to use the separate family bathroom in the house. This is very disappointing as I specifically picked an ensuite room as I do not like to get ready in a steamy bathroom or walk through a strangers house in a towel.
A few strange comments from kath regarding the two of us women sleeping in the same bed. When it got to the evening time for me to prepare dinner, Kath decided then was the perfect time to change the rubbish bins, and spent ten minutes right under my feet to be honest as I was preparing food and therefore couldn’t leave the kitchen and all the bins were right under where I was preparing things. It was just strange and unnecessary. Again. We were made to feel like such unwelcome school children. And then Kath let us know she would be leaving at 6am (through a corrugated iron gate Right out side our bedroom window she admitted you have to “really quite slam” to shut properly) and would return after 7am. She also did not disclose that the “spare room” decorated with folded towels and bathrobe on the bed was actually her private ensuite master bedroom. In which she slept with the door wide open and was situated directly across the hall, maybe 1 metres away from our “private” family bathroom and 2 from our bedroom. I was quite uncomfortable to be staying in such an intimate setting as I am quite particular about my privacy when I sleep. No lock option on our door. So after being woken up at 6am. And then 7am on her return. Kath decided to bang on the bedroom door and announce she has new guests coming so we must vacate so she can clean... at 8.30am!! Which I replied asking her to please confirm the check out time was 10am. To which she replied with “yes. But there’s two of you!”
Upon leaving, we did not even receive a goodbye or any communication for our most curious, unfriendly, badly advertised and very short stay. Do not recommend.