The room itself was nice. It was not the room pictured in the listing, but it was nice nonetheless. I think It would be thoughtful of the host to offer washcloths as well as towels, as there were none. Not a big deal. We were only a short stay, overnight, but the point of us staying there was so we wouldn’t have to make a long drive in the morning through traffic to get to an important meeting in the morning. So when my daughter arrived after midnight and had some difficulty checking in, I was greatly disappointed that the host did not get up and walk out the front door and assist her with her check in. Instead, he left her standing outside 40 minutes in a questionable neighborhood. Only after two phone calls, one from her where he told her to “keep trying the key” when she said it didn’t work; and later, one from me after my daughter called me to say she couldn’t get in and he didn’t come to help, did he actually go outside his own front door and tell her she was at the back house instead of the front house where her reservation was. This alone would make me never want to book here again. So check in was pretty much a nightmare.
But going forward, though it wasn’t the room we saw in the listing, the room we did have was nice and clean. We didn’t use the kitchen, but everything looked decently clean. And the house was relatively clean as well, for a hostel type booking. If it weren’t for the bad check in, the place would be decent. The room we had was nicer than the room listed in the picture, so the host might want to update pictures to reflect a nicer room?