*** Lonnnnnnnng review but only the stuff I wish I had fully understood before booking.*** Ok so a little context, my friend and I have traveled the globe and stayed at dozens of Airbnbs. This was definitely one of the most awkward. The hosts and accommodations were ok but the experience definitely didn't match up with listing, on many levels. All in all, it was a great value in the location we chose. Not an ideal area in itself to visit but very accessible to anywhere we wanted to go. A few important clarifications. Yes, we do both LOVE and have pets and Marshal and Byron's are very sweet! The challenges were that you're expected to play door goalie any time you want to go in or out of the house or your room. Sweet Violet with the very long claws will also try to climb you daily, digging into your legs as she fawns for your attention. But when you have to pick her up to move her out of your room, at the hosts' advisement though they never helped, she tries to or feigns biting! We were advised that she will cry for "4" (?!?!) or up to 20 minutes when the hosts leave and she is placed in her crate. One day we were requested to take her out while we were there but put her back in the crate if we left ... not happening since she already bit at us both as when we had to pick her up to help her out of our room before! Our first morning to sleep in (after running 3 Spartan races each in the two days before), the host family apparently left and Violet cried, barked, howled and banged around from apprx 6am until we finally released her a couple sleepless hours later. She had no food, water, cushioning or toys in her tiny crate so we just stayed in the house until they returned so she could have access to food, water, toileting and companionship. (Not exactly how we wanted to spend our vacation.) She is such a sweet girl and she seemed to decrease the jumping and clawing habits and started learning not to race into our room, with just a couple days of gentle redirection training. She could likely learn to love her crate too, with a bit of training and if it was properly appointed. Crate deficiencies aside, let's be clear: all their pets seem healthy, very happy and very well cared for and we spoiled them each with snuggles and rubs while we were there. The beautiful kitty Salem is also very sweet and loveable. He also eats on the kitchen countertop (his food bowl is kept in the countertop) and was found eating the leftover food the hosts leave out overnight. I accidentally flicked a bit of sticky rice on the floor and I couldn't get the dogs to stop swarming me in the kitchen after that, even after carefully cleaning it up as they tried to snack it up first. Pets eating on food prep surfaces or even in the kitchen at all is not our custom so that was an adjustment to get used to for us both. Regarding the kitchen, while the listing said "full access" to the kitchen and barbecue, we were largely redirected to the tiny mini fridge in our room. Anything needed in the kitchen was basically on a "mother may I" basis, where we had to ask for each individual thing and one of the hosts would get it and hands it to us. As people who do Spartan trifecta weekends around the world, we specifically chose a place with "full kitchen and barbecue access" so that we could buy and prepare our race weekend food. Instead, we ended up having to search out adequate food and stuff what we could in our mini fridge. Thankfully they permitted us to use a bit of their freezer space and ice, as our mini fridge's ice had to be chiseled out (as they warned us) from heavy freezer burned layers that we didn't want to get sick from. Lastly, just be aware that it can be oppressively hot in the room and you're instructed to keep your for closed to keep their pets out. I've slept in much hotter and more "primitive" areas with no AC (including Uganda, Kenya, Cambodia, Las Vegas, and 6 or more casa particulares in Cuba) and NEVER have I endured such suffocating, drenching room conditions. Even the modest homes in Cuba had very effective over-the-door "air curtain" fans but this room has a dinky $5 at a yard sale quality fan that did next to nothing to stave off the drenching heat of that room. But for the comfortable mattress, we would have been much more comfortable sleeping in the car. A decent quality fan and/or ceiling fan would have been perfectly adequate. Somehow, one of the guys lamenting about their convertible BMW having no AC (though that their Land Rover did), offered us little solace. All that said, giving true kitchen and lanai access and keeping them clean (or changing the listing), setting up a more secure front door to keep the pets in and giving them a bit more training, and getting effective am effective room fan would have truly brought this place up to par. Oh yeah. Laundry was $10/load. When we requested to do laundry, we were initially denied "until they got back" (at an unstated time) but thankfully for some reason they permitted us to move the stuff they had sitting in the washer (dry) so we could wash our race weekend clothes. We were ok with paying the $10/load but it would have been nice to know that before hand and to have unfettered access. Again, the whole "mother may I" vibe throughout our stay was just super unusual compared with the many other places we've stayed, with similar offerings in their listings. We only asked...