We cut our stay here short due to the stress and inconvenience of the toilet being broken from the previous guests. 10 minutes after the scheduled check-in time of 3 pm (before we arrived), Janet texted us that the toilet did not work due to the previous guests. Because we wanted to give the host a chance to get the toilet fixed, we stayed instead of leaving. However, that day, Janet did not hire a professional plumber and tried to fix the toilet herself and was unable to fix it. For the first night/day, Janet gave us a bucket and told us to fill up the toilet's tank with the bucket as a temporary solution. Each time we had to flush, we filled up the toilet's tank with 4-5 buckets of water. The toilet made a loud, constant water trickling noise throughout the night/day.
We felt the situation could have been easily avoided and saved us the time and hassle of filling up the toilet tank with water if the host had hired a plumber on the first day - when she found out the toilet was broken. The whole experience was stressful, frustrating, and unnecessarily wasted our vacation time. We decided the next day to cancel our stay because we didn't want to deal with the inconvenience of the broken toilet any longer. We then relocated and rebooked another accommodation for the remaining duration of our trip.
Overall, I would say the cleanliness of the place could have been better. There were several hair strands and grime spots in the bathroom sink, and we had to wash the bedding due to it smelling like mildew.