Maybe my expectations are too high, but we were a bit disappointed in the place. It seemed perfect in the listing, but we ultimately felt like it was lacking. It’s very sparsely set up, but does have the basics. It just doesn’t feel like a comfy home base.
Two Queen beds (two bedrooms), a long dining table, an L shaped couch, big TV (over the dining table), and a full kitchen.
Our complaints - there were barely any pots and pans (4 total) and they were all very small and very scratched up. It wasn’t easy to make a whole dinner for our family. Only a couple of cooking utensils and knives. The bowls are tiny and don’t fit much. It would have been nice to have more usable kitchen items. There was nothing to store food in (no containers, no ziplock baggies). A spice rack with lots of options, but no salt. No oil or any condiments. Any time you tried to cook anything, whether it was on the stove or in the oven, it heated up the whole house. On those hot days, this was less than ideal. The dining table and chairs were very wobbly and loud when moved (the whole place is tiled) so we were very worried about the people below us being disturbed by it.
The towels were all very small and there were no hand towels. No kitchen towels in the kitchen either.
The beds were very hard and after several nights sleeping on them our backs started to hurt.
There are three air conditioners in the unit - one in the living room and one in each bedroom. They were off when we got there, so it was incredibly hot inside. It took hours for it to cool down enough to be comfortable. It would have been nice to have the cleaners turn them on (and leave them on!) before they left that day so that we could have come in to a cooled off place from the heat.
The walls are very thin, so we heard a lot of noise from neighbors. My kiddo was kept up by other children screaming multiple times. A neighbor across the way had a huge loud party one evening and it kept going well past midnight.
There are no smoking signs on the property, but several times there were groups of people smoking (cigarettes and weed) right outside the gate, so we could smell it outside and the AC pulled it right into the unit. This of course might have just been who happened to be staying there at the same time we were there, but the no smoking signs and rules didn’t prevent us from being exposed to it.
What we liked - Cathy was great. Super nice and responsive anytime we needed to contact her. There was no detergent in the laundry room and she had the cleaners come back and bring us some. Something broke right away when we got there and she offered to send someone out to fix it immediately (we declined because of covid concerns). She was such a great host and we were very happy with her. Entry was easy with no keys to worry about and assigned parking right out front. Comfy couch, wonderful shower head (magnetic!!), great water pressure. Everything seemed very clean (aside from the top of the fridge). Location seemed a bit sketchy but was ultimately fine. Fairly centrally located and easy to get to cool places.
It just didn’t feel like we quite got what we were hoping for based on what we paid, and we’ve come to expect a bit more from all the other Airbnbs that we’ve stayed at over the years in this price range.