Unless there are major changes, you don’t have a sense of smell, don’t mind mosquitoes and don’t mind mound - Don’t stay here.
The bouquet of odours ranged from the forceful stench of mould in the entrance, to a mix of cat urine in the living area, mildew in the front room, a septic tank in a certain spot you stood and a general stench which was unidentifiable.
Within 5mins of entering this basement dwelling, both myself and the three other guests were plagued by more than a dozen mosquitoes, this was a relentless trend through our whole stay.
It was quite easy to identify that the floor had been flooded, this was evident through the aforementioned stench and the warped walls (of which I can provide both videos and photos). This may have also explained the carper which somehow was sticky and also the several holes in the walls.
Now the bathroom…. The towels & bathroom products were another nice touch, but that didn’t distract from the fact that the shower head was encased in mould, accompanied by the walls. Only two of us even dared to use it out of desperation, we instead took to finding a public shower by emailing local gyms asking how we could use their amenities.
I realise that you may be wondering why we still managed to stay two nights or didn’t say anything, that lies in the fact that we were desperate and we’re only there for two nights. Where we weren’t event able to identify until the evening of first night due to a late check in. We all looked into other options, but with the late notice we were looking at something three times the price for the already highly priced listing. We also didn’t want to risk the owner (who seemed fine) just telling us to leave.
We did however work to spend as little time as possible in the house so we didn’t feel too nauseous, need to have claritin be eaten alive by mosquitoes.
We’re really not people to be pedantic or complain just to complain; especially when it’s someone’s livelihood but, I will be providing all the photo and video i took to Airbnb. We’ve made all these suggestions to the owner too.