After staying at Ramon’s Airbnb I thought it’d only be fair to future guests to give a thorough review being that I booked this airbnb based mainly from the reviews, which were mostly all positive.
I stayed here for 10 days, I was here for a surgery so the majority of my trip was spent in this Airbnb. I’m not sure exactly what sort of experience you are looking for while on your hunt for a place to stay, but if you’re looking for anything besides a place to rest your head in between your travels or while you’re exploring, this is NOT the place for you.
My first night i get in from a late flight from New Orleans. I’m tired, ready to shower and go to sleep. The front door opens into the kitchen. I was automatically hit in the face with the smell of old Chinese food, which at first was like whatever.. shit happens but then I’m walking down the hallway to rest of the place and I’m searching for light switches. Once I find them i try to turn them on and nothing is happening. I quickly learn the living room and the two bedrooms are lite by lamps. They’re three tall standing lamps in the living room and one in each bedroom.
I put up my luggage up and head to the restroom. Come to find out, toilet isn’t flushing. I finally get myself together and get ready to take a shower, there were 2 towels given for my 10 day stay with a total of 3 people staying throughout the trip.
I open the shower door and it’s horrifying. Comparative to a college dorm room. Mold, left over body hair, the tub itself was tinted black. Cringe worthy.
There is a blue and purple room. The purple room actually does have a very comfortable bed. That night i got in touch with Ramon in regards to the thermostat, which is controlled by an app you have to download to your phone and the login information is given to you by Ramon. I get it, what’s the big deal? It’s winter, who needs to control the air? Well the issue is, is that it’s the heater continuously turns on throughout the entire night wether or not you turn the heater off on the app. And it’s not like 70s, I’m telling you, 80s. It tells you the temperature on the app. So my entire stay was a battle with the app in attempts to not have the home at sauna temperatures .
So the morning after my arrival Ramon did message me if there were anything he could do to make the stay better and he did have someone come out and fix the toilet, clean the shower and they brought some extra towels. I will say Ramon was super responsive and willing to help.
Another detail to this fun story is that this Airbnb is located under a home, and the individuals who live above are incredibly loud. One night I even called the police and filed a complaint because of the blaring techno music and house party going on at 3 am. Besides the wild rave, you can count on a 8-9am stampede and 9-10 pm stampede, with the random disturbances throughout the day.
The plumbing is super weird. After you or someone upstairs flushes the toilet there is a very loud screeching noise that happens in the wall for about a minute or so. Another fun random addition, is that along with the view of the hills of San Francisco, there is a person who lives across/below the Airbnb who leaves paper plates of cat food out, not only will you see numerous amounts of cats eating but at night you will spot raccoons and even a skunk. Like i said, I spent 7 of my 10 day trip recovering in this Airbnb.
I’m regards to trips to downtown, it wasn’t hard to get a lyft or Uber. Costs range between 12-20$ depending on where you’re going and wether you share the ride with someone else. There were lots of good restaurants around that area too even Whole Foods is pretty close by.
Overall the stay was pretty ok. The people upstairs and the thermostat really made the stay difficult. And I doubt that the cleaning fee is going to professional cleaners. Other than that the rest was pretty tolerable. Ramon was super kind and responsive, the place is in need some major upgrades.