Never again. We actually had a safety issue here so had to leave. ALSO: it doesn’t really look like the pictures. They make it look much newer than it is. So many broken and bashed in things it just wasn’t comfortable. It’s like an old student place that use to be decent. It needs paint, has holes in walls and needs new paint…everywhere. It’s also dangerous. Within minutes of entering the house a piece of the kitchen cabinet fell off the wall! It could have broken my mum’s foot or hurt a toddler. Even after hearing this the owner did not seem too concerned trying to tell me the list of issues with his property were ‘normal wear and should not bother me…?!’ Let me tell you about the so called ‘normal wear;
The fridge was caked in other peoples food, so after 8 hours on the road we had to spend time cleaning,
- the garden was completely over grown and had no furniture,
- there are no curtains only blinds and half of the strip blinds had fallen of or were lying broken in a drawer.
- Some of the kitchen cabinets had clearly been kicked in and then just taped back together,
- there was no hand soap, or sponge even to wash the dishes or soap of any kind,
- no welcome guide,
-holes in the wall
- the laminate flooring does meet the wall in places
- a general lack of consideration and what felt like dismissal of our legitimate concerns
- the internet is locked in a cupboard so if you need a wired connection it’s well, just complicated. I could go on honestly..what I will say is having to persuade your host to bring extra towels and being told ‘that’s what I usually give’ is a bit disheartening. I’m as green as the next person but there are ‘times’ when one towel over three days just ain’t gonna work for women in general. He eventually sent someone round after what seemed like an unnecessary amount of persuasion but by this time we had already called Airbnb to leave. I’ve never had to do this and after 8 hours on the road this wasn’t what we were expecting. The host told me the above was ‘normal wear and shouldn’t bother [me]’. What a things to say! Look if you just want a roof and don’t care about the above, I will say, the sheets looked clean and the door locked so….up to you.
After sending pictures to Airbnb they did confirm the above was not acceptable and resolved this in our favor
Tosin please update your house. Guests come to a home and pay good money. Or take new pictures. This was an unnecessarily stressful experience