This is a decent Airbnb. The best thing going for it is the location and the hot-tub. But there is room for improvement in a few areas. The bedroom is literally a garage turned into a bedroom. They have done a good job of hiding that and the decor is super nice. But you can hear people walking outside in the bedroom sometimes since it’s stil a garage.
The mattress in the bedroom is super uncomfortable. It’s super soft and I just sank in. Some people prefer soft mattresses but definitely not us. The sofa-bed in the living room is uncomfortable to sleep on as well. I read that in another previous review of this place. We ended up sleeping on the extra mattress pads provided instead which were more comfortable. So spending $350/night and sleeping on the mattress pads wasn’t too much fun for a vacation.
There are lot of rules that you have to follow. The moment you book it, you get a huge email about rules that you need to follow. First place I stayed at with so many rules. Most of the correspondence is through email instead of using the app which wasn’t an issue for us.
Anyway, even though the mattresses were uncomfortable to sleep on we didn’t bring it up since we knew it’s not something that can be changed easily and didn’t want to burden the host. The hosts did checkin to see if we needed anything which I appreciate.
We did our best to follow the rules defined in the house and the check out procedures. We threw the trash, cleaned utensils, put towel in laundry basket, etc. After we checked-out, we get a message that towels are ruined, the living room has nuts on the floor, the hot-tub needs a water replacement. These were some allegations that we were really surprised by because I have stayed in numerous airbnbs and not once we ever got such messages from any host. We actually never went to the beach for our entire stay since it was cold and we were in the hot-tub for a total of 40 mins split across 3 days and it was just a toddler and an adult. We used a towel to dry the toddler and went straight into the bath for a shower. So we don’t understand how the towels were ruined and how the hot-tub water was yellow since we never went to the beach. There was sand in the hot-tub before I entered it and I shared the photo of that with the host because it was one of the rules you have to follow before 11am the next day.
Anyway, our stay at the place was decent. I really liked location and the decor but if you don’t follow the rules you will get a message asking what wasn’t clear in the rules. If the expectation is to leave the place exactly how we found it than please don’t charge me $150 bucks as cleaning fee.
TLDR: great location, hottub, but make sure you follow all the rules!