Shannon has a nice little space settled in a wonderful area of Seattle. We found the bed extremely comfortable and liked the touch of having a white noise machine as well as an oil diffuser in the room. However, we found the host was a bit more demanding than other stays we’ve been to. For example, we were sent a check out message asking us to not only sort out the types of rubbish but to also remove them from the house and place them in their respective bins outside. We also had to remove rubbish on the regular week rubbish day as we were staying that evening. Our purpose for our stay was to get away from stress of daily life including some chores, but we were made to feel like housemates rather than guests.
The robes provided in the home were unclean (visually appeared dirty and still had hairs attached from previous guests). There weren’t any warm blankets around to snuggle up in; we would’ve liked this as it was quite cold in the room when we returned from outings as we weren’t allowed using the small wall heaters unless present in the room. We were also taken a bit off guard when the host dropped in to check on us, not long after a friend stopped in to say hello, asking whether or not we had read the terms of stay (which we had). We explained to the host that it was a friend who lives in town and is only stopping in for a short while, not actually staying the night as specified in the terms. We felt this was unnecessary as it was early in the evening and we feel it may have been a judgement of age approach, which is unfair if that was the case. This place is lovely for location and that was the main positive for us.