I am 23, and extremely easygoing, my lady and I booked this room mainly to lay our heads as we would be exploring San Diego, so when I explain just how awful this visit was, understand that it takes A LOT for me to even care enough to write a detailed review. But i seriously must warn people of this place. Buckle up!
After not being able to find the place for 20 minutes, I finally was able to reach her and she sent me the actual address. There is no original address in her directions, just the name of the Complex with directions, which will take you to a different place. After parking, we were welcomed and immediately told to take off our shoes, rudely. Our room is revealed and I immediately go to plug my phone in to an outlet as it was dying. She quickly tells me that the outlet closest to the bed is broken and I must use another one because her last guest broke it. (Why are you having guests in a room that has been damaged by previous guests?) she then explains how to work the home theatre and let me just say if you are not tech savvy, forget about it. Even me, a technology wiz, was frustrated at how many buttons and different remotes needed to be used just to turn on Netflix. The remote for the light and fan was just as confusing as they were not in sync and you constantly had to mess with it. The fan would also randomly turn off (of course the last guest broke that too, apparently.) If that wasn’t enough, the theatre is played from a projector that will have the room several degrees warmer within 20 minutes of it being on, I kid you not, it made the whole room much hotter and stuffy.
As she shows us our room, she hands me a guest placard and demand I put it in my car so I wont be towed because in her own words “sometimes they come in as little as 15 minutes and tow your car!” This made no sense to me as the parking spot she claims is assigned to her guests says “guests” on it. Frightened, I go place the placard in my car, but not before having to remember the code for the elevator just to go to the lower garage. This is now the 3rd code I must use. As I go down to do this, this woman attempts to TAKE the charger I had just plugged in to the wall. Luckily my
Lady saw and told her to stop. She exclaims that is was her charger, and my lady had to walk her through the conversation we just had about how the other outlet didnt work and she watched me plug in that charger somewhere else. “Oh yeah. I forgot.” She says, and walks away.
This is where things go from eh… to bad!
She explains how if we are to see any other people, or if anyone asks who we are, TO NOT SAY WE ARE AIR BNB!!! UNDER NO CONDITIONS! She makes this very clear and gives us a template of what to say, “we are just friends visiting so and so…” she goes on to say that her neighbors are very strict and don't like what shes doing so we basically must be discreet. (How can we be discreet carrying big suitcases and luggage?) At this moment I realized that we are really not welcome here, and I start to feel like this is some sort of witness protection program, rather than an air bnb!!!I ask, “we can make noise right? Your air bnb description says ‘no shared walls.’ She quickly exclaims “no!! You have to be quiet!” I give her a confused “are you kidding me?” look and she reiterates how her neighbors are old and will complain and get her in trouble. At this point I'm completely dumbfounded, I ask, “can you give us an example of how loud the TV can be. And she turns it up juuusst enough to hear it. You are definitely not getting a “home theatre” experience. Upon entering the bathroom, there were only two total towels and washcloths for my lady and I for the whole weekend we were there. The water pressure from the faucet almost came out as a drip it was so low I KID YOU NOT!
Two spiders were in the bathroom, like they paid rent. The shower must be turned on by pulling out the handle, my lady was not strong enough to do it! I am a former D1 college Football player and it took a good amount of force to pull it out! Not to mention when you do, You feel like youre about to break it right off because it takes so much force!!
My first night there, we got back around three AM and QUIETLY microwaved our food in the shared kitchen. At the very most, we were softly whispering. (no we were not drunk or bring louder than we thought) after getting our food we go to our room and turn on Netflix (took 10 mins to figure out) and put it on low. It’s at this time i step out to use the restroom and she suddenly appears from the dark frowning and exclaiming “YOU ARE BEING WAY TOO LOUD! MY NEIGHBORS ARE GOING TO COMPLAIN I HAVE GUESTS DOWN THE HALL TOO!!!” At this moment I almost thought I had been dreaming because there was NO WAY we were loud at all. As she leaves she demands that I make sure to turn the projector to the home theatre off before I sleep. I usually sleep with the TV on low and soft white noise, but the projector was so hot, sleeping in the room with it on, we would have woken up and been preheating at 350°.
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