POSITIVES:
- Ashlae’s home is super clean, inviting and sunny.
- She was incredible with communication and the extra steps she took to make our stay pleasant were so appreciated (vegan muffins, some beer in the fridge, great coffee making options and butter/eggs/chocolate).
NEGATIVES:
- Taxi (where this AirBnB is located) is across a set of train tracks and river, making walking to RINO an almost 30 min walk. We were in town for a wedding and I picked this spot thinking we could walk to the events. I was mistaken as the walk is very long and on unsafe/sketchy overgrown sidewalks.
- Ashlae’s place has a ton of rules and the way they were communicated were pretty off putting. For example, she’s very strict about the thermostat and even goes to say in her welcome packet that she’s watching the thermostat to see if we’re setting the temp to the wrong level. Not something you want/need to be thinking about when staying somewhere. Not to mention, if we set the thermostat to say 67 at night, we’d wake up to it being 72…so it’s possible she’s setting it overnight so as to save $$ again, just weird. Things like requiring us to take shoes off upon entering, restrictions on the washer and dryer (can’t use wash and dry option) just made the stay feel more like a burden to the host rather than a welcoming to us guests who are paying a lot to stay here…
In all, it’s a nice, quiet sunny spot with a communicative host. Prepare to take scooters or cabs everywhere, even to RINO as it is not walking distance to much.