Allow me to translate: ‘vintage’ means ‘total dump’ and that is exactly what I walked into when I arrived at the ‘Vintage Garden Flat’ I rented from Rebecca for two nights.
The flat was filled with what looked like discarded, dilapidated antique furniture that was so heavily stained it was right down disgusting to sit on. Walls had serious cracks, doors had holes in them, curtains half hanging, the floor in the kitchen is bubbled and curled up, there was hair from previous guests on the couches and crusted bug guts or something else on the walls in the bedroom. It looked nothing like the pictures whatsoever.
I had just run a marathon the day before, I was barely walking and was in tremendous pain and I felt the condition of the flat was so appalling I forced myself to book a hotel and dragged my heavy luggage up a steep flight of stairs to get out of Rebecca’s flat immediately.
The positive reviews on her profile are for different properties so perhaps they’re better maintained. This flat should NOT be rented out in this condition. Rebecca does not care about her guests and is an impersonal host sending auto-responses, if she replies at all. On top of that, she’s refused to do the right thing and refund me my money for the absolutely awful experience I had at her property.
AirBnb has opened a case on her but won’t take down the listing until someone else suffers like I did. Do NOT rent this property and I would think twice about renting her other 18 properties. I’ve been renting on AirBnb for years and this is by far the worst host and flat I’ve encountered.