I hate to leave a poor review - Steve and his cat Grim Reaper were very very sweet and easy to communicate with, however the price we paid just wasn’t quite worth the price. When we entered the room, we were met with a foul odor resembling BO that remained for the entirety of our stay. We think it was possibly coming from the laundry hamper in our room that hadn’t been emptied from the previous guest’s stay. The floor was also very dusty and dirty, the blinds weren’t adjustable to keep light out day or night, the pillows were old, lumpy, and stained, and the bed was pretty stiff. The bedroom also shares a door with the hosts bedroom, so we were woken up by their early morning conversations around 6am a few times. Lastly, the decor in the bedroom wouldn’t be appropriate for children, as there was a 70’s erotic film poster, topless figures and pictures of women around the room - so just a heads up!
The communal bathroom definitely hadn’t been cleaned in a while, where the complimentary bar soap traveled from the sink to the shower and looked old with hair all over it. The bathtub and tiled walls were darkened with grime and soap scum. We also spotted a few cockroaches there. The shower also didn’t drain properly and had a lot of hair clogging it. Overall, it felt like a very unhygienic space. The kitchen also only offered a hot plate and a toaster oven, so that eliminated our ability to cook for ourselves unfortunately.
Although Steve was flexible with checkout and was accommodating, we were asked to take out the communal trash which was piled with pizza boxes from other guests as a part of the checkout procedure. Let me just say there’s not a cleaning fee for a reason.