Where to begin.
Our check in was the best part of a week long stay. The host helped us with the MANY heavy bags, greeted us, laughed with us, even offered to pay for our taxi.
And that was that.
The minute we entered the property, everything started spiraling. We realized the WiFi didn’t work so we contacted the host. He assured us that it will get fixed, but we spent 2.5 days without WiFi, missed a ton of our zoom class meetings and fell short on assignments. It was very difficult to track him down. He’d ignore us often and when he did answer, it would be hours later. Now I understand that as a host he must be very busy, but the way he conducted himself as a host could be simplified to plain laziness and disinterest. Aside from the internet issue, the tv wasn’t working (which he later fixed) and the kitchen was ... how can I describe it politely ...? Disgusting. Every dish, every spoon, every cup was OILY with black dirt lines on them. We double washed the dishes before using them but they still felt oily. The beddings in the bedroom were also pretty bad. Aside from the obvious wears & tears, the pillows were yellow (and I mean the kind of yellow someone who hasn’t showered in years slept on them for months), the covers also had stains of all sorts on them (the kind that cheap hourly motels would have - if you catch my drift) and the bed was like sleeping on rocks; every spring in the mattress could be felt.
We thought that the cleaning lady would take care of all of this when she makes her daily rounds; but all she did was arrive, take the garbage, mop under the carpet & that was that. Bless her heart she’s very sweet, but she’s not much of a cleaner.
Then comes the long-awaited check out date. We were hella excited to be out. Again, host is a no show. We ask if he could call us a taxi (as we didn’t have Local numbers), to which he responded surprisingly quickly. After the taxi arrived, he attempted to scam us by tripling the price. When we reported this to the host, we were of course ignored. We truly needed him to help with the communication, but he couldn’t be bothered. We waited for over an hour in front of the property with sooo much luggage (like 7+) until we had to finally give in and allow the exploitation. We paid 150 TL for a 10 minute ride. It was infuriating.
To summarize, days without internet, very dirty environment and waking up every morning broken beyond repair from the old mattresses. And, of course, very minimal help from the host.
The sad part is that the property is MAJESTIC! Amazing views and amazing light fills the room... but it’s not worth it at all.