My husband and I rented this property for what was supposed to have been a “late anniversary trip”. (He had surgery and we were unable to go on our actual anniversary).
We were to stay Sunday and leave on Thursday.
We arrived at a little after 4:00pm to check-in (like the posting said). I had never been given check-in instructions, so I assumed someone would be there. We arrive then we waited an hour and a half. No one came, and I still didn’t have access to the online check-in. I tried to call VRBO several times to find out what I was supposed to do, but to no avail. I was very angry. We had just driven over 2 hours and had been sitting in the driveway of this property.
Finally, around 6pm my husband and I decided to go have dinner. We left a note on the door of the house and drove to eat.
We hadn’t been gone but 3-4 minutes when our phone rang, and it was Christian. We both still feel that was very strange… he called so soon after we left, when we had been waiting almost 2 hours. So Weird.
Anyway- He was there at the house, and would let us in.
Once we got back there,and able to get into the back yard, the property was very overgrown. It hadn’t been mowed in a while. The pool was very dirty.
Once inside, the floors looked like they hadn’t been mopped (and my bare feet were black from them) in months.
However, the worst problem was- the smell. There was a horrible chemical type smell all in the house. Within 10 minutes of being inside the house my head was killing me. It felt like it permeated every orifice of my body, into my mouth and it made me very sick. I don’t know if they had sprayed for bugs (which is possible because my husband killed a HUGE black spider that was crawling on the bedroom wall) or what it was, but it made me very sick.
We made it through one night. Had paid $1505 and had to leave. I’m still angry about the whole ordeal.
One last thing- There are cameras there. It doesn’t feel private at all, and feels like such an invasion of privacy.
I was so thankful to get out of there. It took 2 days for my head to quit hurting.