I’m writing this out of 100% honesty from a situation I experienced while staying at this place. I know this is long but if you are considering staying at this home, YOU MUST READ!
Elizabeth could not have been more of an unwelcoming and disrespectful host towards me and my boyfriend. We came to stay at this place hoping to receive warmth, safety, and comfort; as Airbnb’s should offer. Instead, the expected hospitality turned out to be some of the worst and most inappropriate behavior towards me and my boyfriend. Reading the other reviews that people left for the host, I am shocked at how untrue it was and am even willing to believe we experienced a different person completely. We were genuinely surprised to see such rudeness as guests staying in her place. The incident that first occurred that made us feel unsafe and extremely uncomfortable staying there was the way she verbally treated us one night. Me and my boyfriend came back to our room one night after feeling exhausted and drowsy from spending time out, and as soon as we got back we encountered a loud, obnoxious event that was happening on the first floor that we could hear up in our room on the 3rd floor. Which she did warn us about, but we had no idea it would be a huge wedding party. Already being drained, we wanted to take a bath and in the middle of it we got a yell from outside the door from a man shouting at us that the bottom floor was starting to leak water from the bathroom. Upon hearing this, we immediately got out of the bathroom and we’re concerned about what was happening. From behind the door we could hear both the host and a man yelling about us needing to get out in an extremely hostile and aggressive manner. We came out of the bathroom worried and afraid and instead of getting a gentle explanation from the two, they both immediately started screaming at us over what happened. I want to make clear that the host did not make it clear that guest couldn’t use the tub or that specific bathroom for showering. We had absolutely no reason to believe that would cause a leak in the lower floor. The host was sitting waiting in the stairs for us to come out of the bathroom and right away ambushed us with attacks and an intense scream. She started insulting and harassing us, saying things like, “NEXT TIME YOU TWO SHOULD JUST GET A HOTEL!!!” And “IM NOT THE TYPE OF PLACE THAT ALLOWS TWO PEOPLE TO SHOWER TOGETHER!!!”. Right away we were shocked with her tone and tried to explain that we had no idea that this would cause any trouble simply trying to use the bathroom. I literally cannot explain to you how rude and verbally abusive her tone was towards us. Her and the man came at us with more bullying and harassment after we heard Elizabeth yell, “20 YEAR OLD ASSHOLES!!!”. Mind you, this was our very first interaction with the host. We never received a warm welcome or greeting upon arrival. She never thought of being nice to us even after we tried to apologize over and over again, even after not knowing how using the shower/tub would cause a leak. We couldn’t even offer any sort of help or assistance with the incident because we were immediately berated by the man and host. The man soon got right in our faces and yelling at us, “THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED UNTIL YOU TWO USED THE BATHROOM!!”. As though we did anything on purpose. All we did was take a perfectly normal bath. Any amount of water on the floor was the normal residue that comes from a bath. If the leak was caused by the bath, it would have happened regardless of who was taking the bath. It was probably their drainage system, given that it’s an old house it’s perfectly reasonable to assume this was some sort of drainage issue that was unavoidable by the two of us. After this first interaction with the host, we right after felt extremely uncomfortable and unsafe to be staying at the house the remaining of the night. We went up to our room after continuously trying to engage in a helpful conversation with them and trying to apologize repeatedly. After being harassed by their tone and behavior, we went up to our room and locked the door and felt way too uncomfortable to even leave our room the rest of the night. We didn’t even feel safe to go outside the room to use the bathroom if we needed to. We also needed to ask the host if we could have a few more bath towels but couldn’t even feel safe enough to ask her. We overheard them talking about coming upstairs and we felt nervous and afraid they would come up to our room with a key and possibly attack us. I know it sounds like a dramatization, but the way they were acting towards us seemed like she was unhinged enough to actually attack us in some way and hurt us. We would constantly be making sure the door was locked, tip toed around the house, and overall felt extraordinarily uncomfortable and unsafe for the rest of our trip. We were even willing to leave to go to a hotel at 3 am but lacked the funds to do so. We only had a night left so we managed to hold through but it was so unbearable. I have genuinely never encountered someone that treated me with so much disrespect. Especially someone that I am personally paying money to. That is such an awful way to run your business on Airbnb. To be disrespectful towards your guests right to their face after the very first encounter and then to continue to disrespect and bully us behind the doors as if we wouldn’t