We felt that the property is not represented correctly in the pictures. While it looks very new, renovated, bright and spacious in the pictures, it turned out to be opposite of that. Two of the bedrooms are large, one is OK and the fourth one is practically unusable because of very uncomfortable single beds and lots of street noise. The property is advertised to sleep 8-9, but it cannot be used by 8 adults, we had to let our younger kids sleep with us on our beds for lack of sleeping spaces.
Floors are very uneven, specially in the dining and bathroom area, with a lot of creaking sound when you walk. This caused a lot of disturbance to the sleeping kids as well as adults who wanted to sleep until later in the morning. There was a lot of creaking noise coming from upstairs, when someone was walking, perhaps because of the same flooring issue. On two of the nights of our 3 night stay, we were woken up in the middle of the night, at 01:10 AM and 03:40 AM due to this noise coming from upstairs.
The kitchen lacked good pots and pans, and the inventory was very poor to allow us to do any sort of cooking whatsoever. Thanks to our host, this was fixed promptly on the next day, and future guests will not see this as a problem. I would have expected a better inventory check by the host or management company beforehand.
We did not get a very cosy feeling in this house as most parts were very old and rusty, broken door knobs, hinges, not renovated drawers in cabinets etc. Of course, we cannot see all these issues in the advertised pictures, but the management company should take care of keeping the price of this property such that it matches with the expectations, we felt cheated on the price of this property.
Besides the price to quality mismatch, everything else is good, our host Heather was great and promptly handled all the issues which we reported to her.
I still do not understand why our booking costed us $300 per night when on other dates, closer to Mardi Gras, the same property is advertised to a maximum of $170 per night. Only feel cheated on the price of this property against the quality as shown by the advertised pictures.