Hello There
Anthony is a speedy communicator and has a nice restaurant. The ocean view is great. I appreciated the bottle of champagne too. The place appeared to be clean.
My stay started with finding a bug crawling across the inside of my door. I took a pic and sent it to Anthony and the cleaning supervisor came up to talk to me. She said it was a beetle but that’s not what it looked like to me. She blamed her cleaning staff and the fact that the door is left open as they clean so this bug must have crawled in at that time. I was here for 2 nights and found 4 more of these bugs crawling around my room. The bed has noisy springs and feels small. The blinds did not close all the way and the TV needed some kind of app but I wasn’t sure how to get it going. It would help if there were some instructions on the TV to tell you how to get it working.
The Airbnb ad says “comes with a daily meal” and “Breakfast is provided” but I was given a food voucher valued at $15 for the restaurant downstairs. Almost everything on the menu is more than $15. I even tried to order the fruit platter at $14 but I was still handed a bill after. The ad also says “free organic coffee” and I was charged for that.
The walls are thin and you can hear your neighbor snoring on one side and a couple talking on the other side. The couple were so loud I thought they were in my room. They actually left at 3AM and startled me when they were talking and slammed their door.
The neighborhood is pretty sketchy. There is a steel reinforced screen door outside of my door which I didn’t use but was worried why it was there. The rundown liquor store right beside you attracts quite a shabby looking kind of people. To get to the beach you must walk through a long tunnel under the highway. It is dimly lit and I would definitely NOT go through that tunnel at night time. As a father of 3 girls, I would be very concerned for their well being if they were staying in this neighborhood- especially alone.
Overall I feel that the Airbnb reviews were very misleading. This was my first Airbnb reservation and I would not come back here in the future. I will question all future Airbnb reviews based on this experience.