I DID NOT GET TO STAY AT THIS LOCATION. I booked this place a week in advance for a weekend getaway for my wife's 36th birthday. Christmas usually overshadows her birthday so we thought we'd switch it up a bit this year. we were looking forward to this trip and had good faith that simply booking we would be fine. So I did not communicate with Alex until 2 days before the trip. Again, we had good faith that we would simply need check in instructions and we would mainly be outdoors anyway. We were okay with very little to none communication until the 2 days before. Alex mentioned he could not check us in at the time slot I provided, I was even willing to go out to dinner beforehand to make it work for the host. They ended up telling me at 12am the night of, they were cancelling the stay. I did not see the message until 4am, I then had to scramble to get something for us through my wife's Airbnb because the host said they were cancelling BUT NEVER PRESSED CANCEL until 8am.Communicate 1st!