Not a good stay.
Got bitten by one of the host’s dog on my 1st week here (he’s a French pitbull who has been rescued for being so aggressive that his former family couldn’t keep him…). Tried to get me to meet him again, saying he only bites hands and I just have to keep them out of reach, but then when I ask if he ever bit someone else he tells me he bit someone’s foot, yeah no thanx.
I tried to extend my trip and he asked me for money but he completely refused to use Airbnb and to explain why!!! That definitely sounds like a scam to me, what other reason could it be?? The guy seems sketchy do not trust him!!
Common areas are bad. Sitting on the couches feels like you just sat in a dog bed, it’s so full of hair, smells bad, and you immediately get several dogs come on you and try to lick your face so no one’s ever using them and everyone’s always in their room. Since there’s not a comfortable common space, there’s also no community life like there usually is in these types of accommodation (where you’d usually find people to visit the city with). Everyone is just staying in their room living their own life, and also probably trying to avoid the host who is always in the common areas and is the worst thing to the house. He ‘s rude, won’t say hello back, but will get involved in everything you do (don’t you dare use the other common bathroom you usually do or have two lights on at the same time, he will ask you to justify it!) he’s also cheap and will cut off the toilet paper if he thinks people are using too much of it and put watery soap that’s not cleaning anything instead of actual soap… the drier has also been out for weeks and there’s no real hanger for your clothes so it’s a mess with everyone’s clothes everywhere on the garden chairs. I think the owner is also washing the dogs beds in the washing machine or something because it’s always full of dog hair that are then all over your clean clothes, disgusting.
Shared bedroom is not comfortable either, you can’t sit on your bed because therés not enough height and there’s only one chair so if you’re in the room you have to sit on the floor to just be on your phone. Curtains are completely useless and it’s light as day in the room as early as 8am. But you will probably be awake at that time anyway since the dogs are barking all day starting at 7:30am, and because Darryl also loves to vacuum at that time for no apparent reason (he will welcome you on your first day with a « yes I like to vacuum at 7 in the morning so you just have to deal with it hehe :) »)
Try to talk calmly to the host about any problem you may encounter (like needing toilet paper in your own house ?!) and he will get mad at you. He can’t argue without being insulting either, so be prepared for some childish drama 👍✨