Come ready to clean! She said she has a professional service, but no one in my party believes that’s true.
I can say that the rental was comfortable once we cleaned it! 😔😡 There was hair all over the place, including 4 different types in the clean sheets that I got from the linen cabinet. So, we spent our first night cleaning the house - had to wash all of the linens (bath & bed), had to clean the shower and take out the bathroom trash. When we made the beds we found someone’s dirty socks shoved alongside the mattress…the type of thing that would’ve been seen if someone had professionally cleaned the house as claimed.
We had to buy our own basics like Kleenex and paper towel. There were dirty dishes in the cabinet and silverware in the drawer, so we also had to wash dishes before using them.
The shower makes a weird noise whenever you use the bathroom sink. The toilet paper dispenser fell out of the wall. The place could stand a little upgrade - the towels, if not the carpet and dishwasher.
I was traveling with my teenage daughter and her best friend, so the greatest issue is that they swear someone was coming in and out of the unit while we were there. Lights being turned off that we’d intentionally left on, the sound of footsteps downstairs while we were all upstairs and the friend still swears she heard the basement door open while we were dressing one morning.
I can’t speak to the hosts communication because we really didn’t have much other than her telling me she got the feeling I wasn’t enjoying my stay, when I told her about the lack of cleanliness in the unit and reported the tissue holder falling out of the wall. She said that she was providing a partial refund for the inconveniences, but it has not yet been received.
Overall, a totally strange, beyond basic experience. I’m not clear how people get deemed a super host these days but when it comes to this stay….nothing super about it.