This written based on my own experiences while staying at David and his “colleagues” property.
It’s was unfortunate for me but I had stayed at that place for a month. When I first booked in, I asked for an early check-in which they agreed and that was nice. But I had to wait another 30 minute before David colleague, Shareena, arrived and rushed over the check in process, basically handing me the keys and bye.
David does not stay at the property, so I never got the chance to meet him in person and the only interaction was on the Airbnb app chat, and it was very limited.
When first arrived, the room and place was not what I expected at all. The place was old and not new like it was advertised. My room which said was cleaned before my arrival was not cleaned at all, there were dust mite under bed, and that caused me to cough and sneeze the whole night, until I, myself had to clean and broom over everything myself.
The cleaner doesn’t come regularly like it was said on the ads. To be honest, they only come when the room was checked out, and they need to clean the room before the next guest comes in.
The place lacked equipments and utilities as well, so be prepared to buy laundry detergent, laundry airer, toilet paper, hair dryer etcs if you need them. The electric water kettle is uncleaned as well because there were some residue inside and red ants all over when I pour the water out. You have no excess to filtered water if you need them.
Red ants are seen almost everywhere in the house, in the kitchen , bathroom, bedroom and the cabinets. Once, I’ve seen a rat/mouse running from the bottom bathroom into the kitchen, which is very disgusting.
I stayed on the top floor so I have easier access to the top bathroom. It was not good at all and I have to contact David other colleague, Sami, through another messager to get things fixed: the first time the hot water doesn’t work, sorted pretty slow, half a day to get fixed; the second time, the shower head doesn’t work, took about 2-3 days to get fixed, I had to shower at the bottom bathroom; and finally the third time, the hot water doesn’t work again in the middle of the night, I had to wait until morning to get it fixed, and couldn’t sleep comfortably the night before. Communication with Sami was horrible, he would simply ignore your messages or calls, until you spam messages him or bring up the urgent matters (the broken shower) and this also applies to David, very slow and unapologetic responses.
I am writing this long review because I want it to be honest and describe everything I’ve gone through during my stay. Not one time, has anyone came and checking in on how I am doing during my stay. I guess it’s just business at the end of the day, and they don’t care about those things, but as an Airbnb host, these things matters. I did asked for a refund, but they only agree to waived the “cleaning” fee.
The only good thing is probably the location since it is quite central. It is cheap and I believe the quality would reflect that. However, I would recommend staying somewhere else, as that quality was even below the cheap price. If you in a pinch, and need somewhere to stay for 1-2 nights, this place would work temporarily for you. Otherwise, you would risk going through broken things, uncleaned pest around the house, and unresponsive host like I did, during my long stay. Literally, the day I checked out, the top bathroom light bulb flickered and dimmed out. At this point, I just laughed it off in my head and left the place happily because I don’t have to stay there anymore. All in all, worst experience at Airbnb so far, would rate 0 stars if possible, but the 1 star is for the location.