THE GOOD
Sara was great. Extremely responsive, helpful and kind...
Location is perfect, close to transit and city park.
The beds were comfortable. Though the king is very soft.
Sara had our laundry taken to a service and brought back clean and folded.
The front porch was amazing to sit on and watch the thunderstorms.
THE BAD (for us)
There is no freezer or microwave.
This is/was someones private home so there is stuff absolutely everywhere.
The water temperature and pressure was hit and miss. Guest shower handle spun around & around & you had to figure out where to stop it to make water shut off.
Shower was surrounded by shower curtains that you couldn't get off your body.
All of the windows are painted shut so I couldn't get any air while I was sleeping.
Old house, squeaky floors, people living below you.
There are 3(?) dogs that live next door that incessantly bark, woke me up each morning.
Cleaners showed up (in my bedroom) at 10:40am for an 11am checkout.
We arrived very late at night with our 3 kids. Next day, Sara came upstairs to let us know that children are not allowed in the house. She did take us over to City Park & show us around afterwards which was so sweet. Even bought the kids beignets. After speaking to someone at Airbnb, I figured out that the listing was changed the day after I booked the house so I would have had no idea that it was not suited for kids. But there we were.
The house is stunning. Big beautiful southern home. but the floors in the house are EXTREMELY creaky. What I also learned on the 2nd day of vacation with 3 boys is that the bottom floor of the house is split into 2 units, 1 Airbnb unit & 1 owner unit. And to get to the pool, you have to go down the steps, thru the front yard & around the side of the house, past the Airbnb unit right below you. Luckily we made friends w the women staying below us & they liked the kids but we spent the entire week focused on the kids not being too loud, on spring break. It was much less fun for all of us, than I had anticipated.
If you are a quiet person and the pool isn't that important to you, you won't find a better place for the nightly cost of this home. Overall, I think we all did the best with the situation we found ourselves in. But it certainly wasn't ideal for us.