What an unpleasant stay in the pleasant City of New Orleans! I don't understand how this host can have super host status. There had been several issues with this property during my stay - some out of their hands and I am not blaming them for those, but many are very well within their capacity to rectify, including safety issues that the host has been ignoring. I am NOT going back to this unpleasant and unsafe place again.
1. Unsafe hazardous bed - I couldn't sleep both nights as every time I twist and turn, the metal bed will be making awful sounds and wobble. I looked underneath the bed the second night and bingo - it's a broken bed frame supported by a vertical stack of loose wood blocks between the floor and the middle of the bed frame. None of the wood blocks are secured to anything anywhere. The metal bed legs are also standing on loose wood blocks that moves and not secured to the floor or wall. Anytime an accident can happen to a guest.
2. Small Narrow bathroom - If you are tallish like high 5 ft, you have to be careful to stand up after you do your stuff in the toilet. The staircase goes right above the toilet, it's very low height, and you would bump your head if you are not careful. The bathroom is very small and barely one person can do something in it. The soap rack on top of the basin overhangs so much on top of the basin that one can barely use the basin.
3. Broken bathroom door - the bottom of the wooden bathroom door is broken. I cut my toes. The host painted the door but never repaired the broken jutted out piece of wood.
4. Stained Yellow Sofa - The sofa is so dirty and stained all over that one will not dare sit on it.
5. Listening device? There was a small "hey Google" sort of device on the table. I am not sure what it is, but if it is anything like Alexa, Google etc. that should not be in that guest space due to privacy reasons. If it was for something else, just ignore this point.
6. Unsafe Neighborhood - The neighborhood did not feel safe at all. Lots of trash, unkempt houses, broken metal fences in the neighborhood/ on the streets. It just looks low end dirty place.
7. The posted pictures on the property (both inside and outside) do not do justice and tells a wrong story - the pictures look good, reality is real bad.
8. The door code never worked on first try. I had to try at least 3 to 4 times to open the door using the door code every time. I had to literally request my Uber driver to wait for me till I get into the house as the neighborhood felt even more unsafe at night.
9. Noise from upstairs - Every time someone is moving or walking upstairs, you can hear that from downstairs. The house is really old, so I get it. The host told me beforehand that I might hear noises on stairs. But I heard noises everywhere, from the stairs, from the floor above the sitting area and the sleeping areas. The host should consult appropriate building contractors to see if improvements can be made to reduce the noise levels. There might be a variety of tech available now in the market to mitigate this.
10. This is more like a tiny studio and not a one bedroom property. There is no door to the sleeping area, just an open space between the sitting and sleeping area. Overall, the whole space is tiny and cramped up, posted pictures are misleading. One has to carefully go from the sitting area to the sleeping area and vice versa so not to stumble over the loose piece of wood acting as the floor space divider.