I’m very cautious when giving a bad review as I know many people rely on the income and a negative review can really hurt someone (I say this as a former superhost myself).
I’m short, with the support of airbnb, I left on the second day of my three day visit.
Good - great communication from Marguerite and she allowed me to drop my bag off early as I went to work. Daily bed making. I was allowed to hard boil eggs in the kitchen.
Bad - the bathroom here is shared, and there is another long term tenant on the property. The as advertised electric blanket wasn’t available to me. I was given three hot water bottles as a compromise, but one was taken back the next day.
The three dogs are loud. Very loud. I love dogs and have one myself. But these dogs bark from 0645 until 2330 daily. It’s incredibly frustrating. Even more so is that Marguerite shouts back at them, at all hours. It’s like living in an episode of Fawlty Towers.
There are 24/7 road works happening right outside. This is very noisy and even caused Marguerite to go out into the street at midnight worrying for the safety of the street. This wasn’t in the listing and should be so.
Finally, I returned back at 1840 and a colleague was due to collect some shoes (I’m a photographer) at 1900. I strapped them to my motorcycle, securely. Marguerite left at 1900, saw them, and removed them from the bike as a security concern. Now, these weren’t put inside the house, but she took them with her. So when my colleague came at 1904, telling me they weren’t there, I panicked until I saw a message from her saying she took them.
I appreciated the thought, but these were strapped down very securely and were just taken. Nice intent, but not okay to do that without asking.
I wouldn’t stay here again.