Karilyn's place looked like a model home out of a magazine. Karilyn has a "no check in after 10" policy but kindly accommodated me when my flight arrived after midnight. Her place is quaint, cozy and a little cold, but there is an electric fire place that works very well for the "living" area if you are sitting in there. This home is listed as "ENTIRE PLACE" however, it is a shared space with other renters and the owner. The "SECTION" of the house that you rent is yours in its entirety and has its own kitchen and bath, but there are people below or above you and you share the front entrance. I was not aware of this before I booked. Karilyn has freshly worked on floors and her place is immaculate, she requires guests to take their shoes off while walking around and also have on socks. Not only because the owner seems to be ...... about keeping the floors nice but because there are other people living in the same home with you.
Karilyn gave me her cell phone number because she said it would be easier to communicate while she was waiting for me to arrive. That is not a problem seeing as though Airbnb reveals the host's number if I needed it in case of an emergency. Karilyn texted or called me every day 1/2 times a day for the 7 days I was at her place. It was the most uncomfortable, invasive and annoying experience I've ever had with an Airbnb.
I received a collective 15 text messages from the host during my visit asking me every day "Is everything ok up there"? "Do you need anything" "I'm coming up there to do something or nothing". She left Halloween candy at my door, she INSISTED that she bring me a pasta strainer even after I told her there was nothing I needed. She sent a text to tell me she was going to do these things regardless of whether I wanted her to or not.
It was excessive and ridiculous that a person would work so hard on their home and even be nice enough to rent it out for other people's enjoyment then take away their experience by policing every thing from the lights to the floor to the water to the snacks in the kitchen. The straw that broke all backs was this airbnb disallows guests to bring guests over because god forbid adult men and women over 30 travel out of town and want to entertain friends in their fancy airbnb..no.
Karlilyn calls my cell phone at 2:34am (because shes been using my number for frivolities since I arrived) to ask me if I had another person upstairs with me!! What she actually heard was a mounted television on level 20 volume that had been on and at that level for 6 days but somehow ended up sounded like me and the fellas at 2:34 am.
I totally felt like I was in my mom's house and couldn't make a move or a sound without someone yelling, "Everything ok in there"!? Had I known this was a SHARED space I would not have ever booked it. And the listing needs to be changed.
Every opportunity the host could think of to come "check on the place" she tried it. The place is so nice and I understand wanting to keep it that way, but she may need to find a balance in allowing the people who drop hundreds of dollars on her space the ACTUAL SPACE to live in it and being able to still love it for herself.