My husband, my friends, and I stayed at Tim and Elena’s place for 9 nights. And I have to preface this with Tim and Elena we’re great hosts! They were extremely responsive, super nice and very accommodating. Anytime I had questions, they (mostly Tim) would answer right away. And we really liked and appreciated that!
The key thing to staying here is getting acquainted with the manual that they created. Because there’s a lot of little quirks to this place and the manual really comes in handy. We eventually realized that (after bugging them so much about stuff)!
We really liked the amount of space in this place. And the location was awesome! It was easy to get to places, and there were also great little restaurants and shops, literally around the corner.
However, there were so many things wrong with this place, that we probably would not stay here again. The main thing being the water heater in the back room (with the Murphy bed). It needs to reset itself every now and then to get gas into the water heater and it is LOUD! I slept in the room opposite and I could even hear it. It did keep my friend awake most of the nights.
Our biggest issue was that the water heater kept faulting. And that meant we had no hot water. So a few times we showered in freezing cold water! However, to be fair, this wasn’t Tim and Elena’s fault. It’s an older house with old gas pipes. The gas company had to literally dig up the street to repair a kink in the pipe. So we totally were not blaming Tim and Elena for any of this! They were super awesome and even offered up Elena’s house if we needed to shower. We really appreciated that!
What I think they could fix and make better is the place itself, especially cleaning it. When we first entered, there were wet sheets and towels in the washer, and damp linens in the laundry basket. So I ended up drying the towels/sheets. The bathroom hadn’t been cleaned because there were hairs in the tub, and the toilet was really dirty. So I ended up cleaning that. And had to re-wash all the linens on the beds, because they were dirty and smelled. I also washed the bathroom rug because it was filthy! So I spent the beginning of my vacation, cleaning. Ha!
The place itself needs a good deep clean. There’s dust that’s really caked on everywhere and the floors haven’t been mopped in a while. Everything just wasn’t clean. And so that was our biggest issue. And for the money we spent on this place, we just feel it should’ve been a lot cleaner and a bit better kept up.