Our stay at Gail’s cottage was the worst airbnb experience we ever had (and we have stayed at many rather basic and much cheaper places).
Two main reasons for that:
1. The cottage is incredibly dirty. It has not been properly cleaned in a very long time. We spent the entire first evening cleaning and washing to render it the least hygienic. (We traveled with a baby and were worried she would get sick while crawling around.)
- I had to crouch on the bathroom floor to clean the toilet from pubic hair.
- My mother-in-law spent hours cleaning the kitchen (including every plate and piece of cutlery) so that we could hygienically prepare and eat food there.
- The towel we used to clean the dining table was completely dark after one wipe.
- Next to the bed, there was a huge bit of snot on the wall.
- The curtains and pillows were full of dust (especially problematic if you are allergic)
- There were long black hairs and tons of crumbs in the bed and on the sofa beds. The bed linens had clearly not been changed since the last guests. When we called Gail to enquire about that, she did not really seem to understand the problem. She bought new linens and blankets in the 99cent store that she dumped on the dirty bed while we were away. They smelled so unhealthily of chemicals we had to wash them all by ourselves (luckily there was a washing machine)
2. The cottage is really not suited for four. When you transform the sofas into "beds", you can hardly open the front door or move in that room. The so-called mattress on one of the sofas is wrapped in plastic offering no comfort whatsoever and the other one is old and dirty.
We strongly advise against staying here!