The house and the location are lovely but it’s all been overshadowed by the hosts’ passive-aggressive episodes including ‘teaching me how to wash dishes’ and indirectly calling me gross. I wrote down what they said right after - I spend weekends out of Sydney and before the second weekend away I was told ‘Could you move all your stuff in the bathroom when you’re away? Especially the toothbrush as it’s a bit gross having it right by the sink? And the towel into your room please?’ Who keeps a damp towel in the room?!! Who finds toothbrushes gross?!! One morning I was running late so I left a plate and a pot in the sink and I came home to them wanting to have a word with me. ‘This is the brush and this is the washing up liquid and this is how you wash dishes’. I’m a director of a team, new job, new to Sydney and I hadn’t worked out the commute at the time so was worried I’d be late to work yet clearly washing up was more of a priority. Never mind that when I was washing up in the evening and I saw their stuff I washed it up too. I would expect the same. The wifi is very poor so video-calling loved ones the calls kept dropping and the video kept freezing and the wifi also didn’t reach my room so I had to use my laptop and phone sitting on the stairs because the living room and kitchen were freezing - the hosts insisted on having windows open for the cat. I had a bad back from the cold the whole stay. Finally, the hosts are strictly vegetarian and I asked when I arrived if I could cook chicken as I am on a weight-training strict gym regime. They said fine but when they saw me chopping chicken meat one evening on their chopping board, they freaked, started rummaging noisily through the cupboards and gave me a second (!) chopping board rather than the one I was using. If they said no meat at the beginning I wouldn’t have bought a whole pack and then felt stressed every evening cooking it like I had to hide my own dinner. Overall, I didn’t feel welcome or like a B&B guest, I felt more like an unwelcome tenant. An opportunity missed for sure as it could be great if I was made feel like a paying guest.