Hopefully you won’t have to deal with what my SO and I dealt with while staying at Hannah’s place. I’ll start with the positives: it’s really close to the beach and the view is gorgeous from the backyard.
The not so the great stuff: the check in/out times are wild. 5p is pretty late for a check in, but 10am is ridiculously early for a check out. Especially if you’re only staying one night. It doesn’t help much that quiet hours really cut into this time as well as the fact that the kids upstairs are absolutely stompers (cute, but stompers)— so expect an early rise for the next morning.
If you’re hoping to use a washer and dryer, like us, it’s actually in the main house, which we didn’t know, and this meant we had to rely on our host to actually do laundry. Hannah was super helpful putting our clothes into the dryer while we were out, but that’s basically because of a bunch of other compounding factors that will be mentioned in the negatives (along with the fact that we actually didn’t have access to this “amenity”).
If you’re a fan of adrenaline rushes, daredevil shows, and rollercoasters get ready—because parking is a doozy! The parking provided (mind you there were two spots) was at a 45 degree angle down hill dead-ending directly into the garage. My SO felt incredibly uncomfortable parking there as we were in a rental and, well, there was a garage door we could possibly run into. We asked if we could park in the second spot which was flat, on the street, and empty, but our host declined our requests as “it was for guests”. I’m still unsure what title we held.
Speaking of children, it seems like our host had a lot going on. At one point I was left alone in the presence of a toddler and screaming infant while the host left to park her car, though I wasn’t aware of this at the time. I’d like to never be left in this position ever again for the rest of my Airbnb days.
Now the negatives: the guest house was unfortunately not cleaned. We said as such when we first entered the house, and the toilet was stopped up and clogged by something. It took Hannah some time to get back to us so we left voicemails. Eventually she got back to us and said we had to wait until she got home (which would be an hour) until she could try and solve the problem. Eventually about 2-3 hours in she did manage to get someone to come out and fix it, but at that point we very much wanted to be on our way to a hotel. She insisted the place was cleaned, but whoever “swept” swept all the trash underneath the bed. There was also a used razor in the shower, and I was definitely bit by something in the middle of the night in bed (also the bed is not comfortable). The TV/Roku didn’t work, but we were just too busy trying to fix other issues to bother with it.
Lastly it was unclear on how to check out. I’ve stayed at enough Airbnb’s to know that people are specific about how you should leave the place, which I appreciate. Apparently Hannah has no trash receptacle so we were surprised, as we were leaving, that we couldn’t dump our trash. She insisted that she doesn’t get “as much” trash from her guests (we had one bag) and that’s why she only has a recycling and composting bin. She then insisted on ripping the bag open and sorting it herself. This seems irresponsible not to note in your description and especially unrealistic as you are hosting people to stay in your house.
Hannah did feel bad and gave us a $15 bottle of wine for all the issues, but overall I would never stay here again as it seems that hosting is less of a priority and more inconvenience.