We booked for 5 nights with John and we were completely disappointed and blind-sided. The booking I’m sure has been changed now but the first couple pictures shown was a kitchen for all of our reservations. We were a larger group who all booked separate reservations in the same house. We were really looking forward to cooking for ourselves because of how long we were there. We were all hanging out around the table which only had three chairs around it, not very fitting for a house that could sleep 10 all together. We are welcomed by someone who said that they were working for John. We asked him for blankets because the house stayed so cold. He doesn’t come back up so we start cooking. The fire alarms seemed sensitive and started to go off. Two guys come up from the basement and start screaming at us we can’t cook. They immediately call John, the host, and in his list of 17 RULES no where does it say no cooking. We are trying to tell him it was not clear to us as there were pots and pans and a bunch of cooking utensils on the counter drying off. He starts to yell at us through the phone threatening to kick us out. He was not willing to listen to anything we had to say which was fine but for future people DO NOT COOK! They considered us ,all paying guests with reservations for this airbnb, hanging out in the kitchen a party. It seems like you either need to be in your room or out of the house.
Later that night we had to go down and ask for the blankets again. From that conversation on, I didn’t really feel welcome in the house. The rooms are okay, bare bones. The house is pretty creaky because it’s older but it’s not too bad. We didn’t have any problems with the locks and key or getting in the house. Our problem wasn’t even the other guests in the house. Our problem was that the guys who were working for John and were staying in the house drank out drinks that we had put in the fridge. I feel like we were being watched the whole time we were there . It’s also in Johns list of rules that you must not touch other guests stuff in the fridge. We also went down one morning to his staff cooking in the house and using the kitchen cooking a whole meal. I’m not sure if John just has trust issues with his guests but when I spoke to AirBnB about this he said the stove can’t be used because it will burn the house down.
you would have been better staying at a hostel.