Overall, I personally would not recommend booking this airbnb if you care about cleanliness. My suggestion to the host would be to fire your cleaning crew and hire someone who actually cleans then most of the issues with this airbnb will be fixed.
Prior to checking in the Host that owns this airbnb did a good job at communicating. Since they own more than one airbnb they do send fairly long generic instructions that mostly do not apply to the airbnb you rented. I did have to ask 3 times if they have street parking- they do.
The actual check in process was okay. We arrived about 10 mins prior to check in and the cleaning crew was still there so we waited outside. After they left, we did a walk through of the airbnb to make sure it was in good shape.
We noted the following issues:
- Upon entry you can clearly smell smoke - even though this is advertised as a non-smoking property - so if you're allergic DO NOT stay here
- The floors were sticky - EVERYWHERE. You could also clearly see dirt/puke stains (not sure, probably both)
- The kitchen counters were also sticky
- The armchairs were sticky, someone clearly spilled something on one of it
- Found a cigarette butt upstairs in the attic room
- Breakfast bar was loose/unstable
- The firepit was still going until about 8pm that night from previous guest
- Front porch light was out (hopefully they fix this for safety reason)
- Fire alarm in one of the bedrooms downstairs did not have batteries - previous guest probably took it out so they could smoke in the house
Since there weren't any cleaning products in the house, our group ended up going to the store, buying cleaning products and cleaning the airbnb ourself. Not exactly a great start to our vacation.
Needless to say, there were a lot of messages back and forth to the host. They did try to rectify the situation by sending the cleaning people back about 7:30pm - although I'm not really sure what they did except pick up the cigarette butt and throw more water into the firepit.
Our group did not end up spending much time in the house after that.