This place was a huge let down. The photos posted are no longer what you get.
This place is not friendly to those with young children. There are steps into and out of every room, including bathrooms. There are exposed cords hanging from the TV mounted on the wall. There are broken tiles in one of the bathrooms that shift and pinch if you step on them wrong. There are random exposed wires coming out of a wall. There’s an exposed green sewage pipe in the house, though I guess that should not be a surprise as you can see that in the photos posted.
The back yard is not kept up, it is no longer green and lush. It has several brick walls literally falling apart and with rebar sticking out. The patio table has tiles cracked and broken with missing chunks. It’s also home to several very large spiders. There are only patio 3 chairs out there, and 1 of them isn’t even useable as the seat portion is barely being held together by strings. The grill was clean, and worked but did not seem to be able to retain heat that well.
The kitchen is lacking any sort of organization and supplies in general. There isn’t much there and much of what is there clearly looks like it was left by guests in the past or were items the hosts no longer wanted for their personal home. I’d actually venture to say that the goodwill across the street likely has a better selection of kitchen supplies. So if you’re planning to cook here, just be prepared to have to get creative, bring your own stuff, or give up and just run to the store.
So much of the furniture needs to be replaced. The dilapidated patio furniture is just the beginning. The cushions on the kitchen table chairs are literally falling apart. There are 4 couches total, 3 of them are covered because the material has broken down from so much use or lack of proper care. At least one of the 2 office chairs has seen better days.
For an almost $300 cleaning fee I expected to come into a very clean home, that was not what I got. My feet were black and coated in beach sand within 10 minutes of walking around barefoot. There was a previous guests dinner left in the oven. There’s a fan in one of the bedrooms absolutely coated in dust. We dumped the ice in the little kitchenette and cleaned the ice tray which was coated in gunk. We picked up 25 cigarette butts outside because we had a baby with us and didn’t want him picking any up. There are spiders everywhere, inside and out. One dropped on my head as I was making breakfast one morning. A few crawling on walls in various places. The bathrooms and bedrooms all seemed to mostly be clean though.
We were able to check in 4 hours earlier than what is posted in the listing, so that was cool! And the hosts were very kind and super responsive before my stay when I had questions. I will end by saying that this place is very spacious. There were 11 of us and I never once felt crowded. I’ll also say that I am sure that this was once a very nice Airbnb and worth every penny of what these hosts charge. However until furniture is replaced, better cleaning procedures are put in place, it’s sprayed for bugs, and the kitchen is supplied with more I would not stay here again.
I’ll also note that I did not reach out to the hosts as the only thing that they could have done at that point was come in for an extra cleaning (as was offered in another review). We did not want that as our stuff was already in the home and so found the cleaning closet ourselves. There was nothing they could do about the furniture, lack of kitchen supplies, or spiders while we were there. So we just dealt with what we could ourselves.