My wife and I came to Marco's place for two weeks for our honeymoon, but only ended up staying for a week before things became untenable.
People: Marco is not the only person who lives in the house connected to this guest house. His entire family lives there, including his mom, dad, and siblings. We did not even meet Marco, but dealt with his father and mother most of the time. His mother was erratic and hateful towards us, and we ultimately had to file a complaint with Air BnB because of her homophobia. They had a rule of no smoking in the guest house, which we of course respected. But then Marco's parents asked us if we were smoking inside three separate times, not believing us when we said no. Marco's mom also decided to make up a new rule that there was no smoking anywhere on the property, even though I was outside, on the guest house deck I'd paid to rent, the wind was blowing the smoke in a different direction, and their windows were closed because A/C was on. She told me to walk around the neighborhood to smoke instead - um, what? After the altercation with Marco's mom, my wife and I did not feel safe, so we decided to leave a week early and are at least thankful our money was returned.
Privacy: Privacy does not exist in this guest house. The guest house deck was supposed to be part of our rental, yet Marco's family were on the deck several times during our week-long stay moving things around and maybe cleaning. There's no curtain in the bathroom so when you take a shower at night with the light on, whoever is walking in the alley way can see you. We were told that the alley way was locked off and that it was our private entrance/exit, yet a landscaper came down the alley way during our stay without us being informed in advance. Additionally, the alley way side of the guest house has no curtains, just very thin blinds that can be seen through. We felt very revealed and like we had no place to change our clothes without potentially being seen. Because there aren't many curtains and the blinds are see-through, when the sun rises you have to get up because it becomes way too bright in the room to continue to sleep.
Cleanliness: The main area looked nothing like the neat and tidy photos when we walked in and instead had a grungy vibe. The bed had no bed frame and is sitting on the floor on top of the spring box, the blanket on the bed had a permanent stain on it, there was a used men's razor still in the shower, we found a pube on the toilet, the curtain blocking the guest house from the main yard was stained, I wiped the shelves in the shower and the wipe became yellow, the '80s carpet was covered in debris and had not been vacuumed so I asked for a vacuum to use, there was dust on every ledge, and I'm not sure why there were two vases of dead flowers in the unit. Sleeping on the bed also made my hips go numb because it was so hard and uncomfortable. It wasn't exactly the romantic honeymoon get-away we expected.