Overall, I would not recommend this place. The check-in was smooth, but I would say most Airbnb check-ins (at least the ones I’ve done in the past) are by keypad or keysafe, so it’s kind of hard to mess that up.
Upon arrival we did notice the cleanliness of the unit was not what would be expected for the price paid…
Hairs found on the towels, in the refrigerator and even on the cutting boards. The toilet seat was broken and missing the cover… which didn’t mess with “functionality”, but just overall feeling of cleanliness was not there. When opening the storage and medicine cabinets, there was old toothpaste, mouthwash (half-empty), and various other products left by previous tenants.
I did reach out to the host but the “typical 1 hr response” was not even close… I think the first response I received was the next day… and any other responses were at least 6+ hours…
I tried asking where the grill was as the listing mentioned it being on the north side of the complex….no grill to be found. No response ever given. She did respond to my issue of not having the correct towels. The listing mentions to use the white towels for inside and the beach towels for the beach….. obviously… but all we were given were blue towels that were in the cabinet labeled “beach towels”. And then we were just given more of those same blue towels…. So I’m not sure if they no longer have white towels, but it just wasn’t communicated over correctly either way. And I must note, even the the new towels had hair on them.
The kitchen had an old sponge that was definitely previously used… there was only 1 trash bag for our entire stay (we did get more of those in the towel drop-off)…
The listing states “waterfront”… it’s not.. and we knew that, but that is misleading to anyone hoping for that. It is most definitely “street front” and VERY noisy for the bedroom with the queen bed. Every night… if a car with a loud exhaust drove past (or even a motorcycle), it would set off anywhere from 1-3 different car alarms of parked cars…. So I wouldn’t expect much sleep if staying here.
Also, we knew it didn’t have a TV and we figured we would give that a shot… but there is something about having one to just turn on the news.. or just have something playing in the background….. so lesson learned on that…. But again, that one was not an issue as we knew about it.
In the end, we had to go through Airbnb to complain as neither us, nor Airbnb were getting any responses from the hosts. On the 2 or 3rd day, I noticed a white stain on the bedding. Not sure what it was (and one can only hope it wasn’t what most people think), but that was the final straw… Airbnb did assist with the issue and I assume they never received a response from the host as the the last couple days, I would receive a message that they were working on it but haven’t heard from the hosts.
So yea… not really a place I’d recommend…