Pros: great location in an upper class neighborhood close to restaurants. Additionally, the house was clean and tidy.
Cons: there were absolutely zero essentials for the kitchen provided. A couple essentials that were not included (but advertised in the Airbnb posting) were salt, pepper, olive oil, coffee, tea, sugar, cooking oil, coffee filters, etc. The list literally goes on and on. I had to go to the store 3 separate times just to buy essentials so that I could cook. I spent over $60 just on that. This doesn’t even include the lack of cleaning supplies or laundry detergent. Also, there was no house manual and the stove was impossible to figure out. It took an hour trying to figure out how to turn it on and adjust the settings as it was all touch. Extremely disappointed that the host didn’t provide that.
Additionally, this house lacked privacy as there was a car parked in our driveway and someone in our backyard on one of the days. We weren’t provided any notice and were shocked to find someone roaming around our “private” house.
Furthermore this house didn’t have any extras. In other words, for accommodating 4 people for an entire week, we were only provided 6 bathing towels in total. There weren’t any extra rolls of paper towels, trash liners, etc. It reminded me of a budget stay that is skimpy on providing things to paying guests.
Lastly, when I reached out to the host letting her know that I wasn’t too happy with our stay, she didn’t offer any kind of compensation or solution for the dissatisfaction. I reached out to her as an opportunity for her to fix the issues before giving her a bad review, so that there was that opportunity for her. When I reported the multiple issues above to Airbnb, they worked with me and her to come to an agreement. The agreement that the host tried to provide was well under the financial refund that Airbnb ended up compensating me with.
I will never ever stay at one of the hosts multiple properties as it fell short in so many areas. I would recommend people to pay a little more and stay elsewhere for a stress free vacation.