BEWARE: THE DOG BITES!
On the second night of our 3 night stay, we walked in the front door & before I could turn around to lock the door the smaller dog rushed my wife and bit her on the leg. All the other times we entered or exited the house the dog was crated by the front door. The dog is small, but still left teeth marks on her leg. We love dogs. We have dogs. We run an air BnB out of our home. Never in a million years would we let ours run freely with people in our home if we knew it was a danger to our guests. This was completely unprovoked and we hadn’t even made it four feet inside the home before she was bitten.
There are a few other minor things about the space that could be improved. The bedroom door locks from the inside, which is great. But we had no way of locking it from the outside while we were away. This was a problem for us because we had no idea that the house had multiple air BnB guests staying there. That should be clear in the listing before people book.
The listing also states that guests will have access to the kitchen. When we arrived we were told that the kitchen was off limits due to construction. That should have been on the listing. Speaking of construction, we were woken up before 8am on a Saturday morning by the construction sounds. We didn’t notice this problem on Sunday though.
The room doesn’t have a smoke detector. The harness that holds it is still on the ceiling but the actual alarm isn’t there. That would have been great to have with power tools running directly below us.
Over our 3 night stay we never met the host or the cohost. We met two people who apparently worked for the cohost as it appeared there was a business run out of the first floor of the home. Again, not a huge deal but if we would have known multiple employees and construction workers would have been there with potential access to our room (which we couldn’t lock while we were away) we would have stayed elsewhere.
Communication with cohost was usually delayed by a few hours while messaging through the app. I’m not sure who was getting my messages but the response rate could improve. After multiple messages with no answer, I texted the number listed and the host replied telling me that her cohost handles everything and to ask her. We eventually talked to the cohost on the phone but the correct contact number should be made available.
Overall it was a good value. The bed is amazing and we appreciated the stocked fridge. The free parking passes allowed us to park right out front and we didn’t have to move it the entire time. Aside from the dog bite, the stay was good. There are just a lot of things that weren’t spelled out on the listing that we wish we would have known about.