Do not use this AirBnb- unless you’re willing to overpay for a rental that should only be $50 a night!! To say we were deceived is an understatement. Within 2 minutes of arriving (after several months of anticipation), we started looking up hotels knowing we had been duped. I feel I let down my family because we had been looking forward to coming to Chicago with a carefully planned itinerary. My sister-in-law is an AirBnb host. Here is her response: I can believe that AirBnb would allow this place to be on their website. As a host, I pride myself in providing an AirBnb experience that lives up to the idea that an AirBnb is providing a vacation experience worth remembering. I feel this property is substandard and had false advertising, both in the pictures and in the reviews.
I complained to AirBnb and hope that I can get my money refunded- I took pictures and video. The place was small. There were many areas in the ceiling where there were leaks with possible mold. There was a broken chair when we arrived and we fixed it! The smell was terrible like there was mold or a dead animal. The windows had dirt and lots of broken pieces in the window seal. It was hot in the rooms with only one fan that we could find. Basically, it was not the “oasis” as advertised- it was more like “purgatory.” This AirBnb charged me $175 a night, but is worth maybe $50 a night for a starving artist needing a place to crash. We stayed there long enough to find another place and ran away in an Uber! I feel like I was conned, so buyer beware. The right thing to do would be to refund my $1100.