Guests beware... If you enjoy privacy, sleep or peace and quiet, this is NOT the accommodation for you. The home does not have ANY blinds, on any of the windows and is surrounded on two sides by three motels and a busy parking lot. Both bedroom windows look out onto the parking lot adjacent to the busy road which also has a motel signage spotlight on a motion sensor which will shine on and off repeatedly anytime a car drives by, all night long.
My husband, baby boy and I checked in for three nights for our anniversary and knew by 8pm the first night that the accommodations were not going to work for us. We had to drape blankets over the windows and our baby had to sleep with us due to the constant change in light from the spotlight. We reached out to Airbnb that night, again early that morning and I spoke with the host around 11am the next day. I asked her if she would be willing to let us out of our reservation and she agreed. We made arrangements to leave and when we were packing up at the agreed time she came over unanouced with a clipboard deciding she was charging us for the nights stay despite what she had verbally told me a couple hours earlier.
At this point, we were stuck paying $300 for a place we had to leave (same price as deal at the Ritz Carlton a mile away) and we had nowhere to stay for our anniversary night or the remainder of our trip... all with a baby. In all this ordeal took two days away from our vacation and was extremely stressful. Had the owner been honest with me we may have changed our mind to stay another night as paying double was not in our budget and we could have at least enjoyed one day in the west part of the island.
Overall, I have never had such a terrible experience with Airbnb or an inadequate property. My baby boy sleeps almost anywhere and we travel often where there is noise, new places, different shades etc but we always have shades for the room. This accommodation did not cut it for us. The location to the surrounding beaches is great if you don't mind crowded beaches and sacrificing your privacy. Hopefully, the host will learn from this experience, install proper window coverings and not agree to things she doesn't intend to follow through with. I hate writing a poor reviewand I'm sure others have had positive experiences here but this situation really put us in a tough spot.