We got on pretty well at first and she seemed friendly and talkative, and we could talk for hours, although breakfast was never once offered despite being advertised on the listing.
On the first day she told me she doesn't understand why I was using the oven to cook food when I could just microwave it instead. When I politely explained that I'd prefer not to microwave all my food and that it tastes better when cooked in the oven - she dropped the issue, but I did notice that she cooks her own food in the oven instead of using the microwave. After this we still got on well
It all went downhill when I locked myself out on the last day at about 6:30pm. On the first day she told me that the neighbour had a key in case people lock themseleves out - and they were friendly and more than happy to let me in - I knew she was over at a friends and I didn't want to phone her and ruin her evening after being told the neighbour has keys for this reason.
About half an hour later I could hear someone fiddling with the front door for about a minute, so I opened the door and came across the neighbour who said he thought it was left open - I'm not sure if he meant it was unlocked or physically open, but I was in the next room and it didn't seem to be noticably open when I walked past it several times after coming inside, especially as I had to open it to talk to him to work out what he was doing
She got back at 2am and knocked on my door to confront me and she was in quite a bad mood - she brought up a story I told her previously where I locked myself out of a house once in greece and said she couldn't believe that I did it here and that she has never had a guest lock themselves out before, and that her neighbour was a frail old lady who I bothered by asking to be let in (the guy who let me in at 6:30pm seemed pretty friendly and didn't seem to have a problem with letting me in)
She then turned the oven off and said it's her house and her kitchen and that cooking at 2am is weird and asked me who does such a thing, and that I wouldn't be allowed to eat my dinner, which I have pretty bad feelings about after paying £146 for 4 days which includes the use of the kitchen as when I started cooking it she was still out with her friends, so I ended up going to bed hungry and left early the next day without breakfast. Her bedroom was upstairs so letting the oven finish cooking my dinner for another 15 minutes wouldn't have affected her in any way
At about 2:15am I got an awkward half apology through the door where she explained that I'm her first guest to lock themselves out and I should imagine how she felt when her neighbour phoned her to let her know, and that once again I admitted to locking myself out once before in greece
I was pretty disappointed to see her go from being friendly to being mean and felt that her reaction was completely unnecessary. People aren't always going to agree, but being disrespectful is not OK. Her behaviour regarding the oven and then not providing breakfast makes me wonder if this is partly a money issue - but I think after paying £146 for 4 days I'm more than pulling my weight!
To be fair after checking out and realising that I couldn't find my wallet she did let me back in to try and find it