This house was in a great location near the beach and it has a lovely sunny aspect.
After staying in many beach houses and holiday homes we knew to take our own bed linen. This is important as although some linen is provided at this house, it was a little bit smelly in the linen cupboard and some of the provided towels were stained. As there is no cleaning service provided, we had to wash and dry the towels we used on the day we left. We were fine with this as we knew about it in advance, but noted it would be inconvenient to also have to clean sheets and duvet covers on day of departure.
We received a message back from the host when we enquired about availability that we found to be rather inappropriate and sexist: “hiya it is available but because cleaners over there are $100 i cant expect people to pay that so the terms and conditions are that you leave it spotless! Not just man spotless but woman clean! i would rather have a better rating than a nights rent!”
On our arrival the house was not really “spotless”. It was adequately clean for a weekend beach house, but not "spotless" when considering the message received from the host. There was some black and pink mold in the bathrooms, fly poop on the ceilings and the fridge wasn’t very clean. We certainly left the place cleaner than we found it, but we weren’t going to spend hours getting it to what we would consider “spotless” (irrespective of our gender identity!) as it wasn’t provided to us in this state. This property could do with a periodic deep clean by the hosts, outside of guests cleaning after their visit.