Being the owner of a very successful Airbnb, I know how important reviews are, and hate to write this, but this Airbnb is the WORST I’ve ever stayed in for the following reasons:
-The furniture is uncomfortable but more importantly, it’s disgusting! It’s stained and ripped and they just threw moving blankets over it. There’s been zero effort put into the very sparse decor.
-With every turn, the super hard bed squeaks horribly, and loudly. Really bad.
-They don’t use duvets, only comforters, which are too big to go in their washing machine- so clearly they aren’t washed every time there’s a turn over🤮
-The apartment is a heat trap! It’s 65 outside, and over 80 inside. The worst part is aside from the slider, they didn’t bother to put screens in ANY of the windows. None.
AND— one of the fans was not working, and obviously busted. AND- they only had fans in one of the bedrooms
-The kitchen is basically empty with the most bare bones of cutlery and dishes. We bought food to make a tossed salad, but there was no big bowl. We had to toss it in a bag.
-The toilet paper holder is broken, so the paper kept falling on the ground
-The driveway to park is indeed treacherous, as other reviewers have said
-There we’re dead moths all behind the curtains so clearly they do not have thorough cleaners
-And to add to all that, at the time of booking they write there’s “free laundry”, but it looked like maybe it was coin operated in the photos, so I messaged the host to ask if it was indeed free and was messaged back “yes”. So as my daughter is going to do a couple loads before moving into her dorm, she comes up and tells me it is not free, it actually takes 14 quarters for each load. So in our pajamas, at 11pm, we went searching for quarters which took 3 stops.
Totally unnecessary, as we could have easily gotten them while out earlier has we been told the truth.
There’s not a lot of choices for Airbnb’s in Berkeley/Oakland, but I’d choose a hotel any day over this space!