Utente ospite
11 marzo 2024
I wanted to love this place based on all the rave reviews and so perhaps I set myself up to be somewhat disappointed. The house is lovely and well-restored. However, our room, the Cosmopolitan, left a lot to be desired. Its views were of a small parking lot, the back of a rickety-looking rental house, and an alley where trash was strewn about for the first couple of days of our stay. We had to keep the blinds drawn anyway because people would be able to see right in. The rooms are billed as having balconies. In fact, they are decks connected by a maze of different levels of outdoor steps that are very slippery when wet--which they were when we arrived, since the exteriors had just been power-washed. Power-washing is a necessity, but the outdoor rugs should have been taken up beforehand. We had to walk across a sopping-wet rug to enter our room and had to immediately remove our shoes so that we didn't track in the water and chemicals. The odor of bleach coming from the rug got so bad that we couldn't use the deck. Eventually, we asked the host, Sonya, for permission to remove it and she helped us drop the rug to the ground and roll it up. She was very apologetic. The decks aren't fully covered and are exposed to direct sunlight for much of the day. Our room was a little shabby, with wobbly lampshades and one lamp that was very tricky to light. You couldn't charge your phone on one side of the bed because the outlets are not conventional, so I had to prop my phone on a chair on the other side of the room and use an adapter to plug into a wall outlet there. No clock in the room. One of the oddest features was a clothes bureau that had drawers with no handles, only keyholes. There was a key to insert into the keyhole of each drawer to pull out that drawer. Also inconvenient were the heavy, dark, floor-to-ceiling curtains over the door. The curtains have long metal pulls that bang against the glass in the door when you open or close them. Because you have to keep the blinds and curtains closed, the room is very dark, and it was decorated with mostly dull beiges and browns to begin with. Those were the negative features. Now, for the many positive features! The bed was extremely comfortable and had plenty of nice pillows. The closet was deep and roomy. The air-conditioning worked well and there was also a ceiling fan. There was a fireplace, either gas or electic, but we didn't use it. The shower and toilet functioned very well, the bathroom was spacious, and there was a plentiful supply of towels. Toiletries were also provided and the host offered to get us anything else we needed. There was only one, small plastic wastebasket for the entire room. Not sufficient for two people over a stay of several days. No housekeeping is provided. We requested to have the trash emptied, the tissues replenished, and the bed made (once). The front and back doors to the main house are supposed to be unlocked at 6 am, but that didn't happen during our stay. We are early
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