Although we enjoyed our stay and no problems occurred, we will probably not be staying here again. To begin on a good note, the host was great and the camper had charm to it. Plus the price was adorable, but the issues noted were just too grand to overlook. If you are a single, traveling woman looking for a safe place to stay then this is NOT it for you. I felt uncomfortable many times during my stay and I’m sad by that because the solutions to this problem could be fixed within 10 minutes and with a bit of spare change on the host’s behalf to make this safer for her guests.
As noted in other reviews, the gate to the backyard does not have a lock and can be easily accessed by anybody. The backyard is also a shared space with another Airbnb, which I wouldn’t have a problem with but the outside shower is literally ten feet from their window and back door. I’ll return to the whole shower situation shortly though. The camper’s door is also a safety concern. The door’s lock on the bottom is not functional at all so the only lock on the door is the deadbolt, but it’s literally so barely secured in its slot. With a forceful pull, the door would absolutely come open. It would definitely come open if you put your fingers on the giant gap and the top or bottom of the door as well. The door is just not secure at all and being a shared property so close to the road in a poor neighborhood is not safe at all.
Aside from issues like the mattresses in the bathroom and AC not working unless you re-adhered it’s sticky portion to the window again or the lack of curtains (pro-tip, we put all the records in a row on the window to give us some privacy and block the flood light at night from shining in our eyes), there was the shower issue. In the photos on Airbnb, there’s a blue portion on top of the fence that appears to block the shower’s view from the two story building next door. This was not there whenever we stayed. In fact, the location of the shower was not even shown properly on the listing’s photos. The shower is between the camper and the blue shed. If you were taller than 5 feet, your breasts were exposed to the second floor windows next door. The shower curtains were not fixed together so on the unfortunate windy evening I showered there, the Airbnb surely got peeks at me as a desperately tried to keep the two curtains together. I was doing this while simultaneously trying to keep the shower closed at the fence area because there were large gaps in the fence where the neighbors could have seen me as well.
I say all of this because I paid money for a safe stay, an enjoyable one even. I was puzzled at how many other reviews before mine had to mention the issues I saw firsthand. These solutions (like an extra shower curtain, literally even stapling the curtains together outside to keep them from flying open, curtains in the camper, a curtain to divide the mattress storage area and the bathroom, etc) are so simple and cheap. There is not much of an excuse for the situation some guests have to be in when staying here. I just hope this is the final review that has to happen for some change to occur.