Unfortunately, I had an emergency dental issue that kept me from agreed meeting time. Host was gracious enough to leave key under the mat due to a time change upon my arrival.
Also host waived the EXTRA $30 per night GUEST CHARGE due to needing help from a friend to recover the following 2 nights.....
However, lots of late night text messages, as late as 1am, asking if I had company I thought was very strange and probably should've waited till day time hours. Also lots of heavy walking upstairs made it difficult to get an early sleep. The freeway being really close provided a constant HUMMMMMM of passing traffic was not terrible but it definitely was very apparent.
Place was very clean and nicely stocked with fruit and beverages.
A/C worked great, LED lighting was a bit harsh on the eyes.
But all in all it was a nicely remodeled studio. Parking was a +.
Another thing I have to mention that I found to be distasteful in my stay/extended stay is this: I had asked the host if it was possible to extend my stay that was questionable at the time of inquiry....
We did agree that I would confrim within 2 days and discuss a possible discounted rate being that I will have stayed for about 2 weeks.
I did agree on staying within that time frame but did not discuss discounted rate, host was traveling out of town and was in mid flight when discussion was to take place. We then went back n forth, many times, texting reagrding blocking dates and me trying to lock in those dates... I was not happy to find out that I couldn't extend my current reservation but had to rebook completely with not only another AIRBNB fee and at a HIGHER RATE.....
Host RAI$ED THE RATE and sent me repetitive texts on her possible future bookings for dates that conflicted with my extended stay.
Mind you, I confirmed the extension with those 2 days we had agreed upon..... I feel that I kept my end of the deal but rate was raised because of the possibilities of losing other renters which I think is LAME......
I would have never complained about this even if a discounted rate was not possible and if host kept the original rate but thats wasn't the case. Mind you, the host did take off cleaning fee cause no maid service was needed. But lastly, to top it off I received a text at 11pm one evening to essentially to complain that AIRBNB had taken service fee from her pay out....... Sorry
It all went south in mid stay and put a bad vibe on my stay but it is what it is .....
I will in the future will use AIRBNB, as I always do, but will not return here.
Hope future visitors have a better experience then I did.