We rented the “entire house”. This included two bedroom suites down stairs, the screened lanai with Murphy bed and a full kitchen with added bath. Air bnb’s verbiage said we’d have the entire property to ourselves. This was not the case. We were surprised to find other renters adjacent to us, on the lower level. One of two bedrooms below was directly adjacent to what sounded like their main living/ hang-out space. There was a thin glass door, and a thin panel on the other side. The panel had serrated slats that one could see and definitely hear through.
Thankfully our neighbors were sweet. We met in the garden one day and they also expressed their surprise in the setup (we were essentially next to, behind, and above them. I want to emphasize that our the other renters were very appropriately vacationing. They weren’t excessively loud, and after meeting them, we felt less worried for our safety, etc. However, even before meeting them we could tell there were three of them , which movies they were watching, and heard every word in their conversation from our bedroom.
We are deep sleepers and they were nice, so too much sleep was not lost. However I was very upset when I saw my sisters bed after stripping our beds the last day. The mattress was unacceptably sunken in on both sides of bed. They literally slept in two separate concavities. They said nothing to us bc we paid for housing but there’s no way that would pass as acceptable for anyone.
I do want to say that owners were very nice and responsive. The house is clean with lots of thoughtful amenities. I am fairly certain they will respond promptly to the constructive criticism this is intended to be.