I use a lot Airbnb when I travel and even if I met some unpleasant Airbnb hosts, this time made me realize that some hosts do not care about hosting and making people’s experiences better, but are mainly hosting for financial reasons witch is also fine if you get the service you pay for.
To begin with, it wasn’t easy to get to the apartment because the address i was given brought me somewhere else and the host confirmed that this wasn’t the first time that has happens.
In addition, we found it very difficult to move around in London, even though the tube station is located just 10 minute walk. The reason for this is that it’s poorly connected to other main tube lines that if we wanted to go anywhere in London. Saying that, the room was nice and it looked clean.
The host was nice to begin with, however, mentioning their house rules would have been a bit more helpful.
The first thing which was very unpleasant was the dog barking in the kitchen in his tiny cage. He was barking and schreeching as were we entered the kitchen and it made us a little bit uncomfortable not being sure if he’s okay.
The next day we bought some steaks and did not think of anything bad about making a quick cook. We did message the owners to check its okay to cook, but we received a negative response. I understand that these are the house rules - but we were not told about this when we arrived - at least mentioning this would have saved us £10.
In the morning we were unpleasantly surprised by finding 2 piles of dirty dishes in the sink and on the tables. No suprise they do not let people use their kitchen, assuming people don’t clean after themselves.