We recently stayed at Sam’s place during the last leg of our USA trip. My wife and I have two small children and overall enjoyed our stay being our first Airbnb stay.
The house overall is located very close to the main road, several restaurants, grocery shopping and pretty much anything else you’ll need during your stay.
Unfortunately, there was a bad pet smell when we first got to the property and further inspection saw the lounge full of dog hair. We finally got rid of the smell using air freshener and after cleaning the dog hair. The carpet in the lunge room smells also, the drama with shaggy rugs. I feel that if pets are allowed here, the owner needs to ensure it is throughly cleaned on exit and pristine for the next.
There are several things needing urgent repair:
* Bedroom doors do not close / lock
* Wardrobe doors do not close
* Bathroom door handle needing to be replaced. My wife was stuck in the bathroom for 10 mins as the handle locked her in
* Replacement of blinds in kitchen which are broken
* Porch door landing is worn and needs replacing
* TV bracket is broken and TV is on an angle not very viewer friendly
* Bed in back bedroom is uncomfortable and very noisy when moving around
* Pull chain lights in wardrobes not working
* Laundry door and light needs repair
* Fridge door practically unusable due to it being damaged
* Gate remote is damaged with battery always falling out
* Way too many active Wi-FI’s for the property resulting in poor coverage and slow speeds
The fruit trees in the backyard need to be removed. There were several dozen fallen fruits on the floor, some half eaten by rodents and had a really awful smell of off fruit.
There was an issue with others in the street parking in front of the driveway, this either stopped us from getting our car out or parking our car. We received a fine one day as we didn’t have a visitors permit and parked in the street because the driveway was blocked.
Had a good time overall but we wouldn’t be back to this place. We did feel very safe, just in a state of needing repair.
Probably not all that great for kids - lots of knickknacks that are glass or solid wood, uneven floor surfaces and different floor types.