We arrived a bit after 3:00pm, but the place was not ready. We waited 15 minutes for the cleaner to finish and entered. The home had a very spare and barracks-like feel as we entered and looked around. We started in the kitchen to grab a cup of coffee before we loaded our stuff into the house. Unfortunately, this is the only Air BNB I have ever stayed at that did not provide coffee. There was indeed a coffee maker and a huge red Folgers coffee container. However, it had only a 1/4 cup of ground coffee dust at bottom. This, the filthy phone and the light out in the refrigerator were perfect examples of the lack of attention to detail and outright neglect that we would find throughout the home during our stay.
One of the bedrooms had a window that did not fully close. Window blinds were broken and bent out of shape. Peeling wallpaper. Dusty table in the living room. Filthy shower grout. No extra towels. Only one hand towel for all of us in the bathroom. Uncomfortable beds with cheap sheets and not enough blankets. Stained bedspread in front bedroom. The bed in the front bedroom felt broken. The master bedroom is connected to the only bathroom by a short hallway that had only one door, so light streams into this bedroom through a skylight above the hallway. Don’t even think about sleeping in the master bedroom when it is light outside or when people are in the bathroom. The one door that does separate the bathroom from the master bedroom is flimsy with a huge gap at bottom of the door so light and noise stream in from the bathroom.
One of the reasons I decided on this place was that it was advertised as an “entire place”. I suppose this is technically true, but since Felix also put FOUR people in the garage below us, it sure did not feel like an “entire place”. Again, more like a barracks. This is an old and creaking home. Every closing door or moving chair reverberates through the home. Normal volume voices blare from downstairs to upstairs and I am sure vice versa. On the second night, the downstairs group was very loud well past midnight, making it impossible for the three remaining people in our group to sleep. I say “three remaining people” because my girlfriend and I actually left the home early in the morning after only one night. The home was just too unpleasant, too dirty, and too noisy for us to stay more than one night even though we paid for two. This was our 15th Air BNB stay and BY FAR our worst experience.