【location】The location is not as good as map indicated. Although the location is near the sea, but that is a cargo terminal, no view at all. We took Uber for 30min to get the core business district and in Long Beach.There are trash all over the crosswalk in the front door and the surrounding buildings are old. I felt scary when I walked outside in the night.
【host】I don’t know why there are reviews indicating the host hospitable and friendly, Apparently we are exceptions. I feel being treated indifferent from the and I took it as social distance as the host declared. The detailed things happened next make me feel that he probably a racist, only stressing the rules again and agin, no help and no recommendation at all.
【privacy】 I felt very uncomfortable that the host knew what I was doing although I never saw him once. He knew when you came in and out, when you did a laundry，he reminded me by text to fetch it immediately after it finished. I don’t think it’s necessary, I just felt I was always monitored every minute. This is horrible.
One time I tried several times but failed to lock the door while I was out, it was my mistake and I should have tried more times until successful, he told me there was a burglary in this neighborhood a few days ago. If I knew this is an unsafe district before I reserved the room, I would change my mind.
But the other thing is, if you take security issue really seriously, you might as well change a better lock which will not cost much.
【strange fine】The most ridiculous thing is that he wanted to fine me because I make the bath curtain wet.
He has two layers of shower curtains, one is normal for preventing the water from splitting outside, I put all the curtain inside the tub because the bathroom is very small, I didn’t want to prevent the water flowing outside the tub. Probably the other is for decoration which I don’t see any necessity for a minimum equipped house like this. But the thing is he does not mention it cannot be wet, and I don’t know why if it cannot be wet if stand there as a part of bath curtain. When I took a shower I did not realize at all there are prestigious precious valuable royal layers of curtain which cannot be wet. I am a country girl who never see a shower curtain that cannot be wet, I dumbly took the the only utility for a shower curtain is to block water, I am an idiot who have never been invited to a British or French Palace, I am sorry. He even requested a charge for 25bucks for his shower curtain being wet. Ridiculous.
The last thing is my delivery delays a bit, there are clothes and shoes I will really need in the dessert the following days, I am so sorry because this is my own problem. The host does not reply my asking for a little favor, not even willing to help me to receive it but I will fetch it immediately it comes. So I have to return it, this really really sucks. The host dose not have to help customers to do anything, this is not their obligation, but I am mislead by some reviews saying he is nice, and this the main reason I choose his home. I want to provide another prospective that at lease for me, he is far from nice.
I will not make any recommendations, these are my experience and feelings.