Will try my best not to make this the longest review ever, but want future travelers to know what to expect.
A group of me and my girlfriends had a wonderful girls trip for the Essence Music Fest. We chose this home b/c it had the space for our group and the reviews were pretty good. Robin and her husband Jerome were very kind and very responsive when communicating. We had one issue in regard to communication. After a few back and forth text messages and me making a phone call to clear the air, all was resolved and we were grateful.
Our 5 night stay in this home would have been amazing, but b/c of the condition of the home we couldn’t give it great reviews. The home is beautiful and spacious. But sooooo many things needed fixing or replacing. The leather on the coaches is tattered and torn. The towels that are provided in the amenities are probably from the dollar store. The soap that was scattered under the bathroom sink was a mismatch of old hotel soaps from somewhere or perhaps of what someone else left there. The beds were not comfortable at all. And all of them squeaked. The bathrooms were unsafe. One friend said she don’t believe they were up to code. The main bathroom had a converted bathtub/jacuzzi into a shower. Well it was so high to step into and they provided a step stool, but no railings to hold onto. And no shower mats on the floor. A friend actually fell while coming out and took the whole shower rod down! We all went running to the bathroom. It was my fear someone would fall out of that dog gone shower! And it was so deep, the draining was poor and you stood in dirty water while showering. And the hose was somehow poorly glued onto the wall and had already began coming unglued!!! They had a handwritten sign on the wall saying please don’t touch it! But regardless of touching it or not, it was unsafe and could have come down while any of us was showering.
For the second bathroom. If you weren’t a small/average size person, you could absolutely not take a shower in this bathroom. The shower was sooooo small. And the sink in this bathroom was literally coming out of the wall. Literally if you leaned up against it, it detached from the wall.
The location of this house is really in a poor neighborhood. My friends and I mostly get up in the inner city, so we weren’t afraid. But based on the description, the picture of the home is a little misleading. The home is beautiful but the neighborhood is short from it. We didn’t have any bad interactions thank God. And we were close to many things. It was a short $8-$10 Lyft ride into downtown. And 2 out of the 3 nights some of us walked back to the house from the Superdome for the nightly concerts. It was about a 20-25 minute walk. Not a bad walk, but definitely don’t walk alone.
So in summary, Robin and Jerome are kind people. We did end up meeting them both when they came to fix the shower head. The location of the home is a bit to be desired, but we had no issues in regard to safety. The home is beautiful on the inside and spacious, but needs a lot of work done in order for their guests to be comfortable and feel like they got their monies worth. If these issues were resolved, and we came back again, I would honestly consider staying again.