Hmmm….
I will start off with the positives: Kimberly and Tonya are really nice hosts and are very good at communicating and meeting any needs. I stayed at their place for two weeks and Tonya even offered to change the sheets and do my laundry, which was really nice! I’m sure if I had other requests, they would have been happy to accommodate.
Now, I feel the need to tell other interested travelers about this place since I paid double my monthly rent in NYC to stay here for two weeks and I feel I was a bit mislead.
1. This listing is not for an entire private home. Tonya shares this home and lives in the basement. The door leading off the kitchen is to a shared space and her part of the house. The backyard (which does not look like how it looks in the pictures) is a shared space and is frequently used by Tonya, since it is also how she gets in and out of her part of the house. When I learned of this the night before my stay and reached out to Kimberly to clarify, she told me that it was hard to get all the information into the listing and that’s why they didn’t mention it in the listing.
2. This apartment is not bright like in the pictures. This was the second reason I chose it. To give you a sense, the bathroom basically doesn’t have a window (it has a tiny window up by the ceiling that brings in light 20min a day). You can make the mental adjustment on each picture in the listing accordingly.
3. They ask that you not wear shoes in the house for Tonya’s sake below. Make sure you wear socks though because if you are barefoot you’ll have to wash a layer of brown dirt off the bottom of your feet each night before you go to bed. I’m not sure if the floors are dirty or the area rugs need to be cleaned.
4. If you are staying in the summer and the ac units are in, there will be no way to secure the apartment when you are not there. The windows with the ac tubes have not been bolted, so they can easily be opened from the outside. This was a problem for me as I was traveling with a high amount of valuable items.
5. The houses in Denver are cute and old. That means there is some “old charm” that comes with many of them. However, leaky kitchen faucets and shower heads covered in mineral deposits etc can be cleaned and repaired to make for a stay that matches the high price of this Airbnb.
Ultimately, I think a lot of improvements would need to be made on this Airbnb for it to be worth the price. I’ve stayed at Airbnb’s all over Denver and this one was going to be the “nice splurge” this year. Sadly, it didn’t feel that way.
I’m sorry to be writing my first bad review on Airbnb but I do feel other travelers should be fully informed.