It passed 12 days since I left Marias place and I’m very happy about it. It was the most emotionally abusive and mentally pressing experience of accommodation in my life (not only Airbnb, I traveled a lot).
It feels like reviews in this profile have been written about two different persons and houses.
It’s disappointing but I’ve got the “evil twin”.
House was definitely not “neat and clean” as described. Always dark, unpleasant odors, compost bin on the kitchen table and flies across all house even 2nd floor. Once I met roach and heard a very interesting story that it must be guests fault. Sad that it’s impossible to attach photos, but I can send them privately upon request. Also there was scenes of animal abuse. Encaged cats, forgotten fish dying in the dark in the dirty half evaporated water, crying kitten that was scared of hissing adult cat and after that was hidden under the porch in the dark where was mosquitoes and homeless cats, also there was a wounded dove locked in the basement (and never delivered to the animal care center).
Maria wrote me messages after literally everything like a few drops of water on a counter after washing dishes. Also she repeated the same things in person before or after messages.
There is a rule about “light cooking”, but I received messages about “only light cooking” even it was only fried eggs and piece of bread. I received messages about EVERYTHING.
The whole house is covered with stickers.
So it was impossible to relax and just live there.
Kinda when you at home you should always think what else you can do to avoid Marias messages or angry speeches.
First days everything was just okay and Maria was friendly but later she became abusive. Step by step, drop by drop. And everyday it was worse and worse, so I left week earlier to save my mental health.
I’ve tried to talk to Maria and to ask what’s going on but she was rude and blamed me in lies even if I sent the pictures of mess at her house.
Scenes of animal abuse was “not my business” as Maria sais.
She wasn’t polite or something. There was a lot of little uncomfortable situations.
For example one day there was a problem with AC, it didn’t work for a several hours. So I tried to figure out how it works and after that I received a messages that “I should understand that I’m not in Russia anymore”. I’m sorry, but I think it’s offensive. Host was never interested WHY I started to discover how AC works.
Host was not interested in solving problems and being little bit more customer focused.
I’ve tried to be invisible due my stay, follow all the house rules, clean after myself and leave locations better than it was, but probably it was not enough.
I felt myself like unpleasant guest of burned out host who just wants money and tired of people.
I definitely would not recommend this place for people who have empathy, who has any ideas about hospitality, respecting boundaries, who prefer to live in a clean and quiet places and who has any ideas how to treat animals and humans to let them feel comfortable. Probably okay for a very short stays for people who have ‘iron nerves’ and come home just to sleep.
In my case it wasn’t “home away from home”, it was something opposite.