Home - The home itself had a nice, clean interior. Bathroom was awesome, bed was awesome, etc... The problems I had were the noise (thin walls) and most importantly, no interior lock on the back entrance. This is a pet peeve of mine. I like being able to lock a door from the inside. I’m guessing this door led to the back of the apartment where the host lives..? I don’t know, it still bugged me knowing that somebody could access the back while I’m there. The safety issue was compounded by the neighborhood the Airbnb is in which I will get to below..
Neighborhood - this is where things start to upset me. The neighborhood is iffy. It’s not bad bad... but it’s definitely not good. I had about 6 different Uber drivers drop me off at the Airbnb over the course of a few days and EVERY one of them had something to say about it. It was not a good place to be, especially if you were alone at night. It’s definitely better than 10 years ago but still not a great place..
As I was learning about the safety issue in the neighborhood, my doors’ lock was also having issues. It took some time to open the door and I was concerned about being approached/robbed while trying to get it open when I got back at night. I brought this concern up with my host Leah and she took offense to this comment and said the following which I find patently insane.. “You came to New Orleans. It’s a black city. Just because my neighbors are poor and black doesn’t mean anyone is going to jump you.” I found this comment disrespectful, unprofessional, and completely out of line, especially considering I had NEVER made any comment about the race/skin color of her neighbors. In fact, I found the comment racist considering that she would even associate her neighbor’s skin color with a comment about my safety. What a joke. Further, all of my Uber drivers telling me this was a bad neighborhood we’re black! One of them even grew up in a neighborhood close to the 7th ward, a few blocks away from this Airbnb. He dropped me off at night and literally told me it was a rough neighborhood (way better than 10 years ago but still not good) and suggested waiting for me to get inside before leaving because there were dozens of people walking around the block at midnight..
Reservation: only problem I had with this was that I selected 11am-1pm to checkin. Additionally I left a note explaining why I was checking in early and that it was important. This was approved, and I heard nothing from Leah about my request.. until I was on the way to the Airbnb and was told that I can’t checkin until a few hours later. Wasn’t a huge deal in the end, but it was frustrating that the time was approved and no notice was given to me that I couldn’t checkin then.
Overall, I would not recommend this.