Before I start I would like to say that if you were looking for a bungalow type of home this is exactly that experience and in theory it is a cute little spot.
HOWEVER, The first issue is that the listing says there are two queen size beds and that is false. It’s a full-size bed and a twin bed. We had four adults and could not fit everybody in beds.
The next issue is that we immediately noticed a plethora of spiders all over the house including inside the shower. We figured it’s Southern California and as being from Los Angeles we get that spiders happen so we were going to leave it alone.
Then we noticed the TONS of COCKROACHES in the kitchen and dining area. They were coming out of the stove they were crawling around on the counter in the morning and at that point we had to call Airbnb and immediately cancel the reservation. The host offered to have the exterminator come and gave us about an hour notice that they were coming and that we had to vacate the premises for 48 hours.
The next issue is the first picture of this listing is this beautiful green front yard and we arrived at night so we didn’t notice but the next morning we went outside and the yard is brown and dead all of the plants are dead the backyard is full of poop and cardboard boxes and dirt and newspapers and it is very dirty and it was just a mess.
So now we’re dealing with a gross outside area, beds that are not correct, spiders everywhere and house full of roaches and nobody feeling comfortable to sleep while we try to resolve the issue.
The host came to the house and instead of talking to me about what was going on in seeing if we were OK or even coming to check to see about the bugs she fed the chickens in the backyard. She spent the time that we were trying to pack up to leave for the house early because of the roaches in the front yard watching us and playing with her plants and then we could hear her on the phone talking about us implying that we were lying about the bugs as if I don’t have a phone full of videos and pictures of dead spiders and live roaches crawling in and out of the stove.
Then as soon as we pulled out of the driveway she texted me implying that we stole one of her blankets. It was ON THE BED.
If everything was clean and up to par to the way it was supposed to be based off of the pictures it would’ve been an absolutely beautiful stay but it was not and it caused us to be stranded in San Diego with no place to go because we couldn’t book a new place for an affordable price same day. If you were going to host a home you need to make sure that you do not have bugs especially cockroaches.
The host herself is sweet but this was just a terrible experience. AirBnb did give us a full refund. Would NOT stay here or recommend.