My review and my family’s experience and my own at Evgenii’s place is a bit of a mixed basket. I’m going to start out by listing the good things because aside from some bad experiences and things, the place did have some good things.
The good:
The location is great, the house is big for a family of 8, and the swimming pool and backyard is also wonderful. The bbq area and outdoor living spaces were great. The checkin experience was good, and Evgenii was very communicative and he even let me bring along my small senior dog which is too old to be left alone.
And now the bad:
Two of the biggest things to mention are (1) that the host also lives in the premises in a garage next to the house. This was not mentioned in the property listing, and (2) that there are not 4 bathrooms like the listing says, but in fact there are 3, because the fourth one is being used by the host in the Staff house, we didn’t find out about this until we were there, and for us this was a requirement and one of the reasons we picked this property.
The other negative parts are that (1) the listing says that there is a parking available on premises, but this isn’t true; you have to park on the street, and the host won’t let you use the parking driveway because he has his personal vehicle occupying the space. (2) we did not have TV’s working for the first 2 days of the stay, but this is a minor inconvenience, and it was fixed on the third day. (3) the mattresses were very uncomfortable because they were hard, and the pillows weren’t really pillows, they were cushions, and very very soft. My recommendation if you stay here is that you bring your own pillows. (4) the checkout was at 12, but the host asked us if they could come at 10am to start cleaning the backyard and pool, and while this wasn’t an inconvenience for us because we didn’t use the pool on the last day, it meant that we wouldn’t have had the option anyways if we had let them clean it. (5) and this one was quite annoying; since the host lived on the property, one of the house rules is that you cannot make noise from 1 to 4pm because it was nap time for the owner!!!!! Like, what??
And finally, the beds are very dirty underneath , I dropped something under one and when I went to pick it up, I found a gold mine of garbage, like a beer can, and a coke bottle.