Don't Stay with David, Great Stay until you get home and he blames you for destroying his Linens and it's too late to do anything!
Bellow was the review that I was going to leave about Davids apartment, but the stress that I have been caused since I have been home has been quite extensive. David contacted me on my personal phone demanding money outside of Airbnb for a previously existing stain on the duvet cover. Furthermore he claims that we destroyed the sheets, a face cloth and a bath towel. I do not even wear makeup so there is no way that I could have even done this to the cloth. The towels look like there is rust in his washing machine and he is blaming the damage on us. My Fiancé and I used one towel each after having a quick rinse in the morning due to being concerned about the lead problems in the water.
Additionally David asked us to message him outside of the Airbnb website saying that we had arrived, but due to being out of country guests my phone didn't properly send the message and he chastised us about not being able to check our Airbnb messages right away. We let this go and were not going to say anything due to the rest of the stay being okay. This was our first time using AirBnB, and we didn't know that we had to take photo's of the apartment before leaving. We would have just stayed in a hotel.
"David was an extremely thoughtful host that really went above and beyond with presenting his apartment to guests. He responds quickly to any questions you have and even pointed us in the right direction with using the NJ transit system in NY. The apartment was about a 20 minute drive to the Newark Penn Station and there were plenty of parking lots to leave the car (for us it cost 14 dollars a day). Then the train was 2 stops into New York City. When we arrived David had left 2 Croissants on the table as well as a thoughtful self guided tour of Newark. Check in instructions, were very clear and we felt safe in the neighbourhood that the apartment was located in.
The sheets seemed clean enough but there was an orange stain on the bed spread. The general atmosphere in the apartment was great, though you can hear the tv and appliances form upstairs. At the time we stayed in the apartment, Newark was having issues with lead contamination in it's water system. To mediate this, David put a filter on the kitchen tap for hand washing, and provided water bottles for drinking. The water did have an smell to it."