First of all I want to say that I think Jeremy is a really friendly person. So this is not about him being bad. It’s about being able to be a good host (a superhost) or not and what kind of behaviour that should reflect. I’ll not mention much about him confusing what day I was arriving and calling me several times the day before. Anyone can have a bit too much to do and get confused and we eventually figured out that he was confused about my arrival time and we could agrre which time the check in would be the next day. I was about 10 minutes late when I arrive at the apartment, I got lost in Shoreditch. He gives me the keys and then asks me to not rob him. He asks me this three times while he is showing me around....
The room looks neat and tidy and he shows me I can have coffee in the kitchen if I like. And then he tells me he is having friends over after 11:30 PM for an after party this evening. I feel kind of weird saying no to this since it is not my apartment. He invites me to join if I like but I’m not the kind of person to mingle with strangers and I’m getting up early to go to the airport. On my way out I’m reflecting on if it is normal to plan to have a after party in a small two bedroom apartment when a stranger that is paying to stay at your place is in the next room?
At 11:45 PM a couple of people come over. They close the door but I can still hear them chatting. Later, someone (his friend, a stranger to me) confuses my closed bedroom door for the bathroom and opens it. I get a text from Jeremy apologising....
People keep buzzing the door and knocking on the front door and talking loudly in the hallway. I think it was 4:40 AM the last I checked and the apartment finally became quiet. As I said in the beginning. Jeremy is a friendly person. But I found this experience quite disrespectful. I’m a solo woman staying in a strangers apartment. I chose a superhost and paid a little more to make sure it was going to be safe & nice. I would have not chosen to stay at Jeremy’s if I had known he was going to have a party.