This was my worst experience with Airbnb so far. It needs to be known to future guests that there is active, extremely loud construction going on next door starting early in the morning and lasting all day. It is scheduled to go on for “months” as of September 2022. The site is right outside the bedroom window and dramatically impacts the guest experience. You cannot sleep in past 8am when the construction workers start yelling and the jackhammering goes all day. The only way I could sleep was to move to the sofa on the other side of the house and close all the doors (and wear earplugs). Luckily I was the only guest at the time, but there were multiple people that wouldn’t have been an option for all. Beware to guests that you are dealing with a rental company, not an individual owner, and when voicing my issues with the extreme noise they said that “construction pops up around the city” (when it has been going on at that location for months and is scheduled to continue for more) and offered me only a sound machine or a $36 refund for my stay. There is no way they didn’t know about the major construction site directly next door, and had no mention of it in the listing.
If the construction was not part of the problem, the stay itself would have been okay, but with several big concerns to be away of. It is not extremely obvious in the photos, but the window in the shower is completely transparent (no plant obstructing it) and with the height of the bathroom ceiling (extremely low on the entire left side) you are forced to stand right in front of the window and are in full unobstructed view of the road/people outside when showering- especially with construction workers outside the window all day. It is also not clear on the listing that the house is shared with a tenant downstairs, and you will hear her during all her waking hours. Right about the time the construction stops, she comes home and watches tv for hours, and you hear it loud and clear throughout the entire Airbnb rental area. The only time the house is quiet is the middle of the night. The bed is fine for one person, but if planning on having two people in it, know that sinks in the middle and you will likely roll right towards each other.
The house location is good, but I would absolutely NOT stay there anytime soon. The construction and needed updates will completely set the tone of the stay you expected to have. I was looking forward to a relaxing getaway and instead got a headache and lack of sleep with no help from the host. I was extremely disappointed with this stay and response from the hosts and Airbnb in general.