Avoid the place - Specially during COVID
TLDR;
Pros:
Closeness to the beach
Closeness to the Highway
Cons:
- The host is extremely rude and lacks basic human courtesy. It seemed as if he was struggling with some personal issues, but who knows.
- Ants in the unit. Yup, not kidding
- Lack of COVID cleanliness measures
- Early morning Construction in the adjacent unit - No mention of it in the description or by the host
- Jacuzzi not working
- The host short changes the cleaner on the fees
- Hence, the Cleaning of units is very sub par.
For those curious:
In all my years of doing Airbnb, I have never seen a host like David who has been so rude, unaccommodating and unwelcoming to his guests. When we entered the place 1) The view was good but the place was not as clean the way they have shown in the pictures
2) We saw ants and discovered bugs near our bed
3) kitchen had left over pizzas
4) Host seems to be dealing with some personal issues. Had issues explaining himself and had been defensive about our grievances. We had to file a complaint with bnb to block the rental.
5) Had a chance to talk to the cleaners who said they don’t get paid per the Airbnb fees and are made to work more. That would explain the poor cleaning job.
6) Pretty Rigid on checkout time. I mean not even flexible to move it by 15 minutes. Came banging on the door twice for this. A little immature to be honest. We left the place at 11:15 for an 11 am checkout and he was giving us a look on the way out. Grow up kiddo.
Overall, save yourself the trouble. Go to the Malibu inn instead and you’ll have a better time.