Cockroaches. The space itself is beautiful, clean, has everything you could need. But it has cockroaches. We stayed here for a week with a baby, so it was important to me to have a full kitchen so we could prepare her food, have a fridge, etc. Our first night there, I woke up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, saw two cockroaches around the bathroom sink/mirror. Ok, I was hoping that maybe that was a fluke. But the next day, we saw cockroaches near the living room carpet and kitchen counters. I informed the host (after realizing it wasn’t a fluke), she assured us it was unusual and she just had pest control spray there the week before our stay. Next day, more cockroaches near the washer/dryer and more in the bathroom. I told her again more cockroaches. It was the a Saturday and she said she’d call them on Monday morning. Also, because we had a baby, I told her I wanted to avoid anything with too much chemicals. She offered us a can of raid to help in the meantime. But again the next day, I went for the hair dryer, found a cockroach crawling on it. Kitchen counters as well. After she called pest control on Monday, she said they advised that because we had a a baby, they wouldn’t spray. That’s understandable. So she said to just use the can of raid and apologized, therefore we just dealt as best we could with the bug spray for the week. In the end, probably saw and killed 5-10 cockroaches a day. I myself learned that cockroaches do not die unless you spray at it for like 4 seconds straight while chasing it around. We also had to be meticulously clean about eating in the apartment - we put all food in the fridge, never left anything out, washed our dishes right after we used them, wiped down the table, the counters, even the floors for crumbs, to avoid attracting the cockroaches (didn’t work). Also the paranoia of seeing cockroaches, thinking that any moving thing could be a cockroach (sometimes they were), thinking while I’m brushing my teeth, I know that there are cockroaches in the sink cabinets, the inside of the sink, and such. On vacation. Not very relaxing. Actually while brushing my teeth in front of the bathroom mirror, I did see a big one crawling up the door frame in the mirror reflection. After I informed the host we kept seeing cockroaches daily, she asked me “are you sure they are cockroaches and not just ants?” Wow, really? I answered “yes, I am sure. I have pictures and videos of the cockroaches.” After we left, she claimed she couldn’t find any cockroaches at all. I HIGHLY doubt that, and advised her to look at nighttime, when they come out, and in the bathroom, kitchen counters, floors, and washer/dryer areas. After I repeated I had pictures and videos of the cockroaches, the host ghosted me. I had to work with Airbnb who gave us a slight refund. It’s unfortunate because it really was a beautiful space in a quiet neighborhood, exactly what we were looking for - except
for the cockroaches.