Oh dear. This stay would have been acceptable were it not for multiple very problematic moves by the host, Nancy. She scheduled a day of heavy construction work directly next door to our room that began at 8 AM Saturday morning. She failed to notify guests before or at the start of the deafening work, but eventually and begrudgingly agreed to issue a tiny ($25) partial refund after I contacted her about what I initially worried was a very destructive neighbor, and then requested to switch rooms when she revealed that construction was ongoing (a request she refused).
Two days later, having still not issued the refund, the host called to berate me for the unfounded accusation that I was currently banging on the walls while her cleaning crew was "working next door." But I wasn't banging on any wall, or anything at all. I was making no noise whatsoever. The crew I distinctly heard vacuuming upstairs was making quite a racket, but I stayed quietly in bed hoping to wait out the remainder of my stay without further issue. She falsely accused me over and over and over again until I wondered if I had encountered some glitch in a pre-recorded message; she then made a solemn vow to report me to AirBnB. I suspect Nancy's needlessly aggressive and threatening phone call was merely an effort to back out of issuing the teeny refund for the remorseless disturbance that made Saturday so unpleasant, but it was really a pointlessly bitter ending to a trip already blighted by the host's wildly inappropriate and unannounced weekend construction.