This place is every bit as charming as Faye describes. However, I was VERY disappointed in this place.
There are only a couple reviews on here that are absolutely truthful. One being about the smell. As any place in the south next to water, it’s going to smell musty. This house needs to be aired out BAD! The outside doesn’t even smell this bad. She has air fresheners but they don’t really cover anything. There’s also an underlying smell of poop (maybe dog???) in the bedroom. We were here two weeks, unfortunately, and every couple of days for a few hours there would be a strong sewer smell.
If you have allergies or asthma, I DON’T RECOMMEND.
DO NOT use the laundry. If the mildew smell doesn’t knock you off your feet, the humid dog poop smell of the laundry room will. Filthy and trashed. I was hoping that my clothes wouldn’t smell like this because I desperately needed to do laundry, but I wound up having to rewash them elsewhere.
The inside of the fridge was pretty gross. She doesn’t clean it out between guests.
This place needs a serious deep cleaning. I didn’t see the “sparkly clean” everyone was raving about in the reviews. I couldn’t check in a couple hours early because she was “cleaning” from the previous guest. Floors probably haven’t been swept or mopped in a month. I also doubt very seriously that anything has been sanitized for COVID, just from what she did in between guests in the adjacent bedroom.
There are roaches.
The bedroom we stayed in had damage from a pet chewing the door frame and drywall. The ceiling fan and light did not work. The bed is memory foam- not great for stomach sleepers. We had to adjust the slats every couple of days because theY would fall out.
This is the first Airbnb I had to take out my own (and whoever else‘a that was staying) trash and buy my own toilet paper (I asked her for TP daily.)
The mosquitos were ridiculous- not host’s fault. Take some OFF with you. Especially if you want to escape the smell of the house and sit outside for a while.
Faye is really hard to reach. She also mentions you can pretty much have control over the thermostat (we like it under 70) but kept turning it up to 73/75 which made it miserable when it’s 110 outside... Because it’s an older house, it doesn’t have the best insulation and no curtains kinda makes it hard to keep the heat out. And without a ceiling fan in the room, it was hard to keep cool. She did provide a tiny fan that sat on the floor but really didn’t provide any airflow.
The neighborhood was kind of sketchy, but pretty quiet (except for the few fireworks in the wee hours in the morning that I had to decipher between that or gun shots... still out on that one.) I stayed here two weeks and didn’t have any problems as far as that goes.
This place has such potential, but I will not be staying again.