Picked Gabrielle’s house for my sister’s Bachelorette weekend. There were 7 of us, and the house was the perfect amount of space. Hard to come by an Airbnb in the area with more than one bathroom, so it was nice that Gabrielle’s place had 1 and a 1/2 baths (upstairs one has a tub but no curtain, downstairs has a shower).
Unfortunately, the weekend of our stay there was a heat advisory and it got up to 115 degrees! Gabrielle was kind enough to provide us a few portable fans, however it was still extremely hot. Would have liked to have box fans, the ones she had were rotating standing ones that really didn’t provide much cooling sadly. The temp difference between the two floors was pretty significant, and all the bedrooms but one are on the upper level. There is one AC unit that stays in the dining area, which we were grateful to have, but it was still extremely hot even late into the evening. I don’t fault this to Gabrielle though considering most places in Portland don’t have central AC; it was just a fluke that we happened to come to Portland during a heat wave!
We cooked breakfast in the kitchen and it was great, but know there are only simple cooking items in the house (we couldn’t find salt & pepper, and no pan that could be put it in the oven for baking/roasting).
On the second morning of our stay, we discovered some ants on the floor in the downstairs bathroom as well as all over the kitchen counter. Could have been due to the heat, unsure if it’s a general problem cause I hadn’t read about it in the reviews.
Sadly the TV didn’t work during our stay, even after changing the batteries in the remote. Gabrielle was quick to ask us if we had tried that or unplugged and plugged back in, but we still weren’t able to turn it on.
Gabrielle was pretty good at communicating, other than it was obvious (and she also told me) there are multiple people on her team who reply to the messages, so many times I had to repeat things or she would ask me the same questions more than once after I had already addressed them. Overall, I would recommend Gabrielle’s place.