OWNER LIVES IN THE FRONT HOUSE
I can’t really rate less than 5 stars on most of the questions because based on those questions we had no issues but just an overall bad experience partly my fault here because I bought my 12 year old boy as a last minute decision and he stayed over 1/3 nights. I did apologise to the owner and paid the extra money he wanted for my son but
1. We had an infant which I added to the booking and although the booking states infants are free and not included in the total number according to Airbnb the host didn’t think this was right
2. I tried to negotiate and offer to leave with my son after the first night and leave the two ladies who paid three ways with me there for the last two nights and was told if I leave they can’t stay
3. Luckily we had come in a much bigger group so I had arranged for my son to sleep on the couch at someone else’s Airbnb to avoid having the other two ladies kicked out.
4. This is in the rules so please read before booking, you can’t have guests between a certain time. We didn’t have guests outside these hours but one of the ladies was out and came really late so the host reminded me of the visiting hours (felt like a prison)
5. Felt like we where being watched the entire time, you could see the host watching from his house sometimes ( the reason he saw the extra person and sent me a message right away) its a bit creepy if you ask me. Oh they also have cameras in the driveway and they tell you that in a little instruction package you get when you arrive if you read it, it’s in the driveway area to see who comes in and out I guess, not sure but creepy it’s to watch you.
The owner lives in front so he’s pretty much watching your every move. We kept the curtains closed the entire trip on the side where the property was facing the front house, no net curtains so if you do open them you can be seen from outside.
Didn’t enjoy the stay wanted to leave but couldn’t due to the booking being in my name. I actually fell asleep at another persons Airbnb the last night and asked the other two ladies to bring my bags back to Auckland to avoid having to go back.
All in all the worst ever experience I’ve had but my fault partly because I should have read the rules, there is no grey area here some hosts have compassion and humility and dont really fuss about these types of things but here you’ll need to be careful. At first he said it was due to insurance purposes that I should update the booking but after all the beating around the bush it was about paying more.
Driveway sucks we all had to pump tires due to the driveway.
IF YOU WANT TO BE WATCHED THIS IS THE PLACE FOR YOU 😡