If you don’t have a car, don’t stay here.
The key pickup location is a 15-20 minute walk from the rental. Dragging luggage across town through trash and urine-soaked streets was not the ideal start to our trip. No where did it state that the key pickup was in a separate location, let alone attached to the back of a gas station 20 minutes away.
There’s a grocery store and a couple of mediocre restaurants/coffee shops within walking distance, but anything worth visiting is at least a 30 minute walk.
Upon entering the rental, we were greeted with the overwhelming smell of chemicals— whomever cleans the rental just leaves the towels and cleaning supplies in the closet near the entrance, so the whole place smelled like cleaning supplies the entire time. Good that it’s clean I guess?
Also, every correspondence from the rental company states “do not mention AirBnb… say you’re a guest of Jason.” Sorry, why do I feel like I’m committing a crime while I’m just trying to enjoy my vacation? Every time we ran into someone else in the building we were scared they would ask us about who we know, and coming up with an elaborate backstory on how we know “Jason” wasn’t how we wanted to spend our time.
It’s obvious at first glance that no one actually lives in the rental. The furniture is cheap and uncomfortable, and the studio doesn’t even have basic things like a blanket if needed.
We chose this rental because it had access to a pool and seemed walkable and comfortable. But we didn’t even bother checking out the pool because of the amount of cockroaches around it at night. Obviously that’s not the property’s fault, just be aware if you’re wearing open-toed shoes at night, you might get a nibble from the world’s largest roaches.