The location of this Air BnB is spectacular- centrally located in SD with easy access to so many places. Lots of good restaurants and places to visit near by.
We had a great vacation and enjoyed our stay, but the quality of our stay was diminished by some misunderstandings between us and Michael. We brought our dogs with us and left them alone for about 6 hours on the second day of our trip. This was during the day, not at night, and they had access to water and a doggie door to let themselves outside. Our oldest dog gets anxious when we leave him so he howls when left alone in the beginning, especially if he hears someone outside. He started howling and we got a message from Michael indicating that he felt we were using the Air BnB as a kennel and our dogs were disturbing the neighbors…. Which I can understand, except this neighborhood has more ambient noise (dogs in the neighborhood constantly barking, loud cars, and directly under the airports flight path for take off) than we’re used to and the dogs may have been responding to that.
For the rest of our stay we felt like we had to either take the dogs with us wherever we went or stay at the house with them. It really disturbed our plans. If a place is going to be labeled “pet friendly” then you should be able to leave your dogs alone for six or seven hours. This isn’t unusual for them; they’re left alone at home all the time, the important thing is that they had access to the back yard and plenty of water.
We wouldn’t stay here again because of the pet issue. For a couple without pets this place is fine.