Worst (most unsanitary and poorest quality) AirBnb stay we have ever had.
We had 7 adults and two 5 year olds stay for the long weekend for a family wedding—black mold in every bathroom with a shower/tub, and also found lining the vent in one of the main rooms was the tipping point.
Some positives: great size and layout. Amazing kitchen size and spaciousness—excellent for entertaining. Great fire pits for evening. Excellent location to all things (URI/Kingston/Point Judith etc…), and a very safe area. The owner made some nice pre-checkin-gestures but it felt like he was out of touch (out of state) from the property based on what we experienced.
Overall the house as advertised is not what you get. It’s a completely overrun glorified frat boy house—it is in fact used as campus housing, but it felt as though it was never turned over for normal adults to stay in after the end of school year.
For starters the drawers and cabinets in the kitchen were dirty and littered with food crumbs and crap. Much of the furniture was so overused and worn it looked like it was from the trash—broken chairs, broken appliances, very worn bedroom furniture with damage/burned out marks to tops of surfaces, worn out leather couch that was literally falling apart and peeling off on anyone who sat on it, and sunken in all over. There were holes in the walls and a lot of broken elements including door knobs and lights and toilet paper holders to name a few.
Upon arrival the towels we were given were of such poor quality and had not been washed yet, that when we used them the fabric material came off on our bodies and stuck to everything. It took 3 to 4 loads through the washer and dryer—that required us to pay for the loads—before they were usable.
The utensils, plates and cups were not all clean. There was a hodgepodge mixture of miscellaneous plates and cups with very few sets of more than a couple of matching pieces— you could not serve 3-4+ people a full meal with what was available, let alone with matching/usable serving ware.
The mattresses were very old and uncomfortable. The one in the upstairs spare bedroom was completely sunken in in the middle and covered in piss-stains— so badly that between the smell and the sunken-center no one could sleep on it.
In almost every coat closet was a pile of maintenance items… Paint cans and cleaning supplies and a mismatch of utility items strewn all over the floors.
Lastly, and most importantly there was black mold seeping through all of the ceilings in every single bathroom (except for the bathroom on the main floor that didn’t have a bath or a shower). It was disgusting and clear that it had been there a very long time.
There was also black mold growing right next to the air vent in the room with the piss-stained mattress— we firmly believe that this is how the black mold permeated the airways of each and every one of us who slept upstairs. All of us woke up the last days of our stay sick, coughing, sneezing, allergy/asthma symptoms etc... (two immunocompromised in the bunch who were most affected).
I connected with the owner on Saturday and he seemed shocked about the black mold and said he would come over to spray it with bleach. We never saw or heard from him there after.
There is clear signs of house neglect and disregard for visitors.
On the whole, the house would have been a great experience and size for any big family or friend group if it wasn’t for the property neglect and mismanagement.