This is a sweet place in a great location and check in was super easy. However, the host was very slow in his responses—we waited two weeks for answers to our questions, and he didn’t respond until the day we checked in.
The towels weren’t in the bathroom so we had to run through the house to get them out of the linen closet the first time we took a shower. The kitchen is missing a few cooking amenities that would have been useful like a ladle, a working garbage disposal, any kind of mixing bowl, and there was only one small cookie sheet for roasting.
The biggest problem is this:
No where on the description of this place does it explicitly tell you that it’s a duplex and that the other side is also an Airbnb. You have to go digging to find out that it’s a duplex, that the other side is a listing as well, and that you technically DON’T have “the entire place to yourself”. It should be listed as a condo or apartment. We only book private places and we were led to believe that this was one. So, We were extremely disappointed when he messaged us two hours before check-in and said it was a duplex. When we arrived, we learned that the walls were paper thin as well. In every room throughout the duplex, we could clearly hear voices talking next door at a normal volume. the dining room has a tiny note over what used to be an entryway that’s now covered with a thin piece of plywood. The note instructs you not to play music in the dining room or talk too loudly. It was more like a dormitory than a duplex and definitely NOT a private place.
If you don’t mind the lack of privacy, the restrictions on talking in certain rooms, and the noise from next door, then it’s a nice little place. Lots of great things are walkable from here, and it’s got a cute, quaint vibe inside.