Eva and Sids house is setup for a very comfortable stay.
They were very good hosts who checked on us during the stay to gather feedback and make sure we were set up.
If we had been staying longer then 4 nights it might have been worth the cost, but as our stay was only short it would have been more cost effective and much more practical to have stayed in a hotel closer to restaurants and attractions.
But I did want to take this opportunity to provide a learning I got from this booking.
When I booked it was really clear that the cancellation policy was strict, which I know allot of hosts choose to do to help manage their calendars.
What I didn't understand was that this also related to change requests. I needed to reduce my booking down by a day and because it was within the 50% cancellation window I had hoped this would be possible and I could at least get back 50% refund of that days rate.
What i learnt is that there are no AirBnB rules around change requests it is 100% up to the hosts.
So in this case the request was declined. I also suggested changing the dates to a day earlier so that we kept the length as is but moved the check in and check out by one day. Which was also declined.
In the end Eva and Sid went above and beyond to work with me for a solution that was to release the final day and if it was booked I would get back what ever they managed to charge for that booking - which resulted in roughly 50% refund but it couldn't be confirmed until after our stay.
As I said this was not on Eva and Sid, it was my fault for not understanding the rules better.
I appreciate them working with me to find a solution. But it was quite a stressful experience and one I that take the learning from as a traveller but also as a flexible host.