One of my worse Airbnb experience ever.
Danielle kept making comments to me straight from the beginning - the little I was in the house she never seemed to miss an occasion to make me feel small or unwelcomed. She was being ironic and belittling towards me pretty much as a default communication setting.
A couple of things to know about the house:
There is no heating, or as least in wasn’t on late October, so it is really cold in the room. I said I was cold on the first day and asked for heating, she gave me one, then a few days later a second extra blanket but with the temperature being so cold I ended up sleeping with my turtleneck sweater on top of my warm pyjama top as I was still really cold (8 degrees Celsius outside, and probably inside too).
The host recently moved into the house - a large part of t he living room is just boxes and stuff - but the living room is also where the host and the dogs either stay or spend most of their time so not really a shared space at all.
I’ve had dogs and I like them but this situation is quite special and needs to be fully explained : 3,4 or 5 small dogs are staying in the house (she has 3 dogs but she dog sits one or two extra dogs depending on the day) and they bark at you anytime you leave your room to go anywhere in the house. Which can be understood for the first day, but I rented for 5 nights and this kept on for the whole rental, so I spent as little time there as I felt so uncomfortable.
I’ve been in quite a few Airbnbs along the years, and I’ve recommended hosts to be superhosts on many occasions.... But on this one, Danielle is not a super host, she is in her house and she makes sure to let you know as much as possible it’s her house and her dogs house (her words), she made no effort to be welcoming or make me feel “at home”. Quite the opposite. She didn't want me to feel home at all. To the point where she once entered “my” room without asking, and when I said I felt uneasy about her walking in the room like that she started being very unpleasant with me saying it was her house and she didn’t see what the problem was with me as she was in her house. Not a good experience at all. May be my last airbnb for a long while actually.