TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE!!! PICTURES ARE DECEIVING!!! I’ve used Airbnb often in the past - with friends, family, & alone. But this was by far the worst experience!
For starters, only rent this space if you want to be in an awful area of town. We weren’t from the area, so we didn’t know. While we were out and about, some locals and taxi drivers all cringed when we told them. We weren’t sure about this, so we did some research. The violent crime rate in this (on a scale 0-100) is 91.2 and the property crime is 89.2 ...& the US average is only 31.1 ..so this is the area they’re advertising you stay in.
Secondly, the space. Yes, I understand that spaces can look smaller than they actually are...but this tiny basement was awful! Upon walking into the first bedroom, my mom found mole crickets on the bed. She brushed them off the bed, but said how uneasy she was about sleeping in the bed. ..until we found them in the other room. My fiancé said he absolutely wouldn’t sleep there. & even though we asked for blankets and pillows for the futon, they simply put a thin, fleece on the bed. No pillow. & we were staying Thanksgiving weekend, when it’s cold out. They made a closet/half bath a “full bath” by SQUEEZING a shower in. It looked like they literally just made a closet a bathroom so they could rent the space out. When I say there is no more than a foot of space between the wall & the sink, I’m not exaggerating. & you must pass through this space to get to the shower. So if you are even a little over weight, or like in my case, pregnant, don’t bother.
We didn’t end up staying here. We rented a hotel room after being in here 5 minutes. This place was not worth my money, at all. Especially not the $110 for ONE night in this dump. A complete waste because they didn’t refund us, even though we couldn’t stay in their space.
To make matters even worse, they messaged us the next morning asking for us to leave a FIVE STAR REVIEW! Which leads me to believe that all of their reviews are falsified.
Completely dissatisfied with Airbnb and this space.