My Friend and I booked this air b&b for a work trip, and we were expecting two beds to be prepared (as the listing specifies) but there was only one queen. This wasn’t a big deal as we are close friends and were able to share, but the room didn’t seem to even have room to assemble the listings additional queen air mattress queen, nor was there extra bedding for said air mattress. I would definitely be prepared to only have one bed. Our first night check in went smoothly, the house was clean, but the host did go out to a concert with a friend, leaving two dogs at the residence. We both have dogs so it wasn’t a bit deal at all, but at about 11 pm one dog started scratching at the rented room door and woke us up. He headed downstairs to scratch at the back door for awhile until we went downstairs to let them out to the bathroom. Totally fine, I let the host know that he was scratching. He did the same thing at about 4 am and woke us up again, and we decided to not go downstairs to let him out even though he was scratching at our door and the back door for some time. I messaged the host about this when it happened as well. I was disappointed to see that neither message was responded to in the morning, but decided to just let it go. The host was downstairs and approached us in the morning only about letting the dogs out to the bathroom, when I would have preferred to have a messaged response addressing both instances. (At this point I was a bit grumpy and sleep deprived and I have a hard time confronting people in person)
On our third night, there still hadn’t been any messages addressing the instances which was frustrating to me, but as we were prepping for bed the host knocked on our door wanting to discuss the messages in person. I felt a bit overwhelmed with the in person discussion, and would have heavily preferred my messages to be replied to on the air b&b app. I’ve stayed at plenty of shared housing air b&bs and have never before felt that privacy was an issue or that boundaries were not put in place to ensure guests comfortability. I’m sure this was a one time circumstance as the host is a super host, but it was definitely a bit off putting for us personally. Everyone has off weeks and i’m sure this experience is great for solo travelers/very outgoing people, but it was not an ideal situation for us.