My attention was grabbed by this listing after seeing the very attractive photos of the place with a (hot tube!), reading the great reviews and most of all the fact that there is an onsite community bakery.
The price was steep but I thought that it would be a perfect end to my California coast road trip with a unique experience like this.
I noticed there was an inordinate amount of reading about conditions and unusual details like there being a there being a certain amount of activity (and not about the fact that you're awaken in the morning to a lot of noise, such as the the noise of guests and workers using the toilet adjacent to the room separated by a thin wall, or the bashing about with the bakery just which is literally outside the door of your room) or the bizarre option of either paying $25 for cleaning or changing the bedlinen yourself and leaving the room clean. I presumed that this fee would be deducted from the fee before booking but neither is this explained in the house rules or did Anja explain to me when booking.
Arriving there was strange.
There was a girl and a guy chatting and I felt like I was intruding into someones kitchen and I was awkwardly and briskly indicated that my room was the one opening up directly on to the kitchen.
In the evening when I came back to do some work on my computer the wifi went I was left the entire night. And because there was no connection because of this location I couldn't even use my phone.
This wouldn't be a problem if I had known this but in any case for my one night here I had to frantically catch up on things I had to do for work the next morning where there was connection.
Interestingly the bedlinen stank which may reveal that previous guests were equally confused or uncooperative with this unclear cleaning deal as I was. After all they don't even explain to you where the clean sheets are to redo the bed.
And I hesitated to interrupt the bakery operation to ask any of the slightly unapproachable workers chatting between themselves where they might be.
I have a lot of experience with airbnb and this only my second negative review, but I felt it only right to indicate to potential guests my experience here.
It is grossly over priced and you find yourself squeezed uncomfortably into another money making operation which is the bakery.
This is basically what I felt leaving here.