Quirky character and rustic are not synonyms for dirty and decaying. Buyer beware and never again!
This was my first time to New Orleans and my first time using Air BnB, so perhaps these complaints are typical, but the condition of the home was not acceptable. The positives first - location was 2 blocks from the Magazine Street bus, which was great and easy access to the French Quarter. Also, the downstairs bathroom is pretty nice. That's it. When we arrived at 5:30pm, the house was dirty, one of the beds was slept in, and there was a musty odor. The phone number for the host was not working so we had to message through Air BnB. The host promptly responded, said the housekeeper was mistaken about the calendar, and said she was on her way to clean the place. Fine, mistakes can happen. We went out for dinner and when we returned, things appeared to be cleaned up, or so we thought. The refrigerator had multiple spills and was a bit of a mess. Despite purportedly being usable for 4 adults, there were only 2 regular sized plates, one of which was cracked, and 3 small salad plates, 2 of which were cracked. Some of the dishes we tried to use were also dirty, so we washed everything before we used it just to be safe. The recliner-rocker has no footstool, so it is unusable as a recliner. Also, after two hours of walking on the floor in socks (after the place had been purportedly cleaned), my socks were filthy dirty and tracking hair from multiple donors (human and canine) - yuck! Needless to say, I never went without shoes again. I ended up going to the nearby Walmart and buying a couple pairs of sandals, both of which were filthy dirty by the end of the week. We cooked a breakfast casserole to save money for lunch and dinner, and the stove top was broken and cracked, though still usable. We didn't use the dishwasher because someone had thrown a dishwasher tablet still in its packaging in and ran it, causing it to stick to the heating element, so we were concerned running it might start a fire. Finding lights that worked was a challenge throughout the home, as half of the bulbs were burned out or we simply couldn't find a light switch to work the light. We came across bulbs later in the week, but is it really my job to replace lightbulbs? Using a "clean" bath towel left a trail of someone else's hair where I used it. I later discovered why - the dryer lint screen didn't look like it had been cleaned in several weeks. When I went to go to bed, I had to wipe everything down - clothes rack, hangers, nightstands, everything was dusty. The bed was now made (hopefully with clean sheets), but that was about it. Also, the sheets were so thin and worn I could feel the mattress underneath and they had holes in them. When I walked on the floor, it bowed under my weight - it felt like very thin plywood. Needless to say, I did not feel safe spending much time upstairs. The beds were uncomfortable, the furniture was uncomfortable, all-in-all we didn't have a comfortable place to come back to after long, tiring (and wonderful) days exploring the city. This made the week even more exhausting. If budget was not a concern and it was not NYE week, we would have left the same day we arrived.