The BYO of Airbnb's!
First, I don't believe in a bad review, just an HONEST review. I booked this place because it was right on the beach and for Cali standards, pretty reasonably priced especially for the holiday weekend. (Memorial Day). I brought my son and his friend who are both 17. I didn't need a fancy place, just a clean place on the beach with normal amenities. I knew this was a historic building and an older place which doesn't bother me. BUT........here is my honest review on this place.
Upon arrival we were greeted by a woman, not Michelle, she was very nice. We entered the unit (bottom floor unit 4) and it was old but at first glance not bad. As we walked the unit I found quickly that it did not look like the pictures. It was overloaded with misc. garage sale furniture that was clearly used and abused. It was a mish-mosh of crap in my opinion.
The front door screen is so rusted it won't lock and the front door is so old and busted you literally have to slam it to shut it closed and it does not lock. The front patio has old furniture that has seen way better days (probably picked it up with all of the other garage sale furnishings) and there was a ladder on the front patio (which the lady who greeted us said she would move but never did). There is a gas grill that doesn't work and 2 BBQ that you cannot use because there is nothing available to clean the grates with, nor was there aluminum foil to place over it. The carport is deteriorating and the bricks are loose. The garage looked like it was about to fall in on itself.
Let's discuss the kitchen shall we? Don't look in the drawers because if you do you will vomit. They are filthy! And there is barely any silverware to be found. All of drawers/cabinets were filthy. The fridge was being held together with tape.
Bathroom: There is only one bathroom and there was no hand towel in sight to dry your hands off after washing them. We were lucky to even have hand soap and toilet paper because there were no other amenities here. NO hair dryer, NO shampoo, NO soap and not enough bath towels. This place sleeps 6 and there were 3 bath towels and 3 beach towels. At least have matching bath towels and if you are going to supply beach towels don't do it at the expense of the bath towels or at least put in your bio that you only supply certain things. I have been to MANY airbnb's and this was by far the WORST. Save your money and don't stay here, or stay somewhere close to it but unless you are a Frat boy and want a place to crash that's better than the inside of a car then I say choose something else. This place could be great if the owner took some pride in it and fixed it up a little and put some TLC into it. Seriously it would only take about 5 grand to invest in some nice matching comfortable furniture, kitchenware, patio and linens. I could write more, but who's going to read it. This review is already long enough.