I went to meet Grego at the house to get the key while my mom stayed at the cafe up the street to stay with our food and bags. He shows me around, but only shows me one bedroom. I ask about the other bedroom, because the listing lists 3 beds, and he says that’s only for more than 2 people. I tell him that I’m with my mom and that we don’t share a bed and that we need the second bedroom because we booked the entire place. He tells me that I need to pay him $30 more if we want to use the other bedroom. He said the base price only includes one bedroom because that’s all 2 people need and more than 2 people affords them the second room for an added price. I told him that when you book the entire place you get all the bedrooms, and he said “not at this house.” He told me he had no idea if I only booked for two people and was gonna bring in more, and that’s why he didn’t wanna give me the second bedroom. I told him that you never really know, and that’s the risk you take with letting strangers stay in your house. Also if I was trying to sneak in more people, I probably wouldn’t be making such a fuss about sheets. So I had to call Airbnb and get it sorted out with them, I was trying to as quick as possible because we only had two days there and this was cutting into our time. I guess he didn’t wanna lose the money if Airbnb found me another place, so he agreed to come to the cafe and meet my mom to prove that we didn’t have more than two people. I think the process took two hours.
After this experience I saw that other people had the same thing happen, but they didn’t seem to care. Maybe they didn’t know better but that isn’t allowed! If you book and entire place, you get the entire place, he can not charge per bedroom! He also cannot ask for more money outside of the Airbnb transaction.
Ultimately we decided to stay here because we thought coming to an agreement would be quicker than waiting for Airbnb to find us a new place. And we really just wanted to put our bags somewhere and get on with our day.
During check in while I was trying to get ahold of Airbnb, I connected to the WiFi because my service was bad. Later that night when we got back to the Airbnb after our day, I was no longer connected to the WiFi and it was not appearing in available connections. So I’m not sure if he turned it off while he was making up the second bed, but all I know is I was connected to WiFi before our disagreement and then there was no option to connect afterwards.
Aside from all that the place was absolutely beautiful and was exactly the same as the pictures. I wish the expensive wasn’t tainted because it’s probably one of the nicest Airbnb homes I’ve stayed in. But I will absolutely not be staying here ever again, and I do not recommend others stay here either if you are traveling with someone that you don’t share a bed with.