I don’t know if this is typical but I never heard from the host until I messaged her the day before our arrival. I was never given any instructions. She did respond when I asked how I was supposed to get in the house. Upon arrival, the house was very hot. There was an ac unit in the living room and both of the bedrooms, but they hardly gave us any relief. We put drinks and food in the fridge but quickly found out that wasn’t keeping anything cool either. We were getting ready to go out when the electricity blew in both of the bedrooms and the bathroom. Now the shabby ac units weren’t even working. I did quickly get ahold of the host, who said she would send someone over to fix the problem, but we didn’t want to stay there any longer. We were already sweating while getting ready, and that was while the ac was still “working”. The host was friendly and understood that we didn’t want to stay. We left and got a nice hotel closer to downtown for the same price.
We were very disappointed with the whole experience and moving to another location cost us an hour or two when we only had one night in town.