I’ll start with the pros. The house is beautifully updated. Gorgeous kitchen, luxurious bathrooms and a pool. WiFi worked great and the master bed was incredibly comfortable.
Cons:
Kitchen is sparsely supplied. Let’s be honest, most travelers chose an AirBnb so they can save $$ by cooking rather than dining out for every meal. This was the same for us. The kitchen is huge, but missing some key tools. We tried making chicken parm pasta (premade chicken parm) one night and pizza for dinner for the other and a standard breakfast of eggs, hash browns and bacon. Items that weren’t available? Pasta strainer, spatula, oven mits, tongs. I’m sure I’m missing a few more. I could get over the pasta strainer, but the others are essential kitchen items in my book. We didn’t have a single meal that was “easy” due to the lack of kitchen tools. A positive is that many prior guests had left cooking essentials such as oils and spices.
I think another guest has already posted this, but the outlets in the master bedroom do not work. Master bath outlets do, but not in the actual bedroom.
Inconsistencies between AirbBNB listing check in time and actual check in time. The listing shows 4pm (or did when I was a guest). We had an early flight, so we were advised by host to drop bags for storage at 10:30am while the cleaning crew was there. When we arrived at 10:30, the cleaning crew tried to make us wait until 11:30. We returned at 4pm to check in and had to message host multiple times to get the door code (which is very easily guessable) only to find the cleaning crew STILL there. This isn’t a large house.. 3 beds/2bath, I can’t see how it would take 6+ hours to clean. We were asked to come back, but I talked the crew into letting us wait in the backyard by the pool instead. I also feel the check out time is a bit too early (10am). I would have preferred 11, which would allow five hours to flip the property for next guest.
Backyard - I will be honest and say we chose this place for the pool. It’s a little dated and smaller than it appears in photos, but overall I am satisfied with it. However, the small part of that yard that was actually a yard was full of overgrown dead grass. I’m talking over a foot tall. For an AirBnb, I would expect the landscaping to be maintained, not perfect, but at least maintained.