Overall the place is spacious and in a great neighborhood. My only issue was with the communication with the host Yoni. On two occasions when I needed help with the space 1- being locked out due to the front door being jammed and the “trick” the host shared didn’t work 2- Swarms of ants began to infiltrated the space.
While Yoni was quick to respond, he did so in a very accusatory manner that made me feel quite uncomfortable. “I’ve lived here for 5 years I find it hard to believe..” - comments like these are condescending and honestly just mean especially when someone is paying over $2.3k to live in your house for a couple weeks.
A couple nights into my stay he sent me a messaging late in the evening stating that there’s a slight ant problem in the house and asked if I wanted an exterminator to come at 11am. I didn’t see the message nor did I notice when the exterminator rang the bell the next am. When I did respond to the message and requested to reschedule the exterminator Yoni said it would be fine. Then a couple days later swarms of ants began piling into the apartment, one even crawled up my face. When I told Yoni this he only wanted to overnight a highly reviewed and spray. After my third request as the infestation continued he finally had a cleaner come but again claimed that the previous exterminator was scheduled and “you didn’t let him in”.
This again made me feel very uncomfortable as he failed to give me advance notice to see his message and didn’t indicate that there would be any difficulty rebooking an exterminator.
As someone who travels alot for work and stays in a lot of airbnbs this communication was very triggering and didn’t make me feel welcomed as the Airbnb community should.