This was my first air b&b experience and it will probably be my last.
Upon arrival, I walk around the apartment and I find in the living room: food crumbs on the floor, as I move the couch I see a pacifier and more trash that has been accumulated for who knows how long. At the kitchen more food crumbs on the floor and around kitchen counter, in the fridge a water jar (filtering kind) with water inside which seemed so old that the water had become milky white. I look at the foosball table, also dirty with food crumbs inside the “field”. As I take the carpeted steps up to the bedroom I see hairs, clipped toe nails on the floor and on the corner between the bed and night stand. I open the closet, and there was what appeared to be crumbs of bacon, and some hairs. The closet’s door (mirror) was a bit sticky with smudges of someone’s dirty hands. I turn to look at the bed, the bed frame made of white lather looking plastic fabric had sticky smudges. As I reach the bedsheets to see what else can go wrong I see yellow stains on the sheets and intimate hairs lying here and there, the pillows were definitely dirty smelling like someone else’s head. In the bathroom, a drawer with a bunch of hairs, the floor and the bathroom mat were equally filthy.
I was exhausted, I contacted TJ to explain the condition of the place. TJ answers the message saying that the place was cleaned that morning. I had no problem in sending her the pictures to show it was not the case. I wish I could share them in this review but I don’t think is possible. Any how, later at night after sending photos and numerous messages TJ came a to the apartment around 10pm. She highlights the fact that she has interrupted a dinner with her “clients” and she explains that her profession is a medical provider “therapist” and she likes to sometimes take her patients for dinner… she continues by saying that air b&b is not her business and that they (TJ and her partner) owned around 75 units in the area of which they rent as air b&b.
I mention the obvious: “well, this is your business if you’re offering a service and capitalizing on it” - I continued… “you should at the very least supervise your so called cleaning team before you rent a place out to somebody”
She says, she’s sorry and shows me a new set of sheets which she had brought, she changed the bedsheets and that the next day in the morning someone would come to clean the place out. This time, she would have her own personal cleaning lady come . I said ok, it was late 11pm and I was exhausted after my flight/and all the hassle - my brain was In burned out, all I wanted was to sleep. She changed the sheets, at least that was ok now.
Next day, the cleaning lady comes and I receive a message for me to supervise and instruct the lady if anything. Wonderful, now my job is to supervise the air b&b cleaning lady a 20 something yr old girl, that has recently moved to the US and barely speaks a word of English - I don’t speak Turkish. She was grumpy and angry to have me and my friend, whom had just arrived from Houston and was staying with me, give her orders - in any case it worked out. We stayed a couple of nights, once my friend was gone, the internet stopped working and there were some termites that had been spotted in the house. They were coming from the outside, next to the red door (main entrance to the building) I spotted what it appeared to be the beginning of a colony of termites. This was it for me. This would be my First and Last experience - a complete Disaster.
And to be honest, people handling the business seem to be very scratchy (to say the least).
Hotels are better and you know it’s clean! If isn’t someone is accountable for it.