This was a lovely home with a nice big swimming pool. Large enough to accommodate myself and my 8 sisters, all of us over 60, which I shared with the host when I booked his property. The large table and chairs were nice as we spend most of our time playing games.
I had booked it in February for a July stay. A week prior to our stay I received a message from the host that the deck around the pool wouldn't be finished due to supply chain issues and offered a full refund. This was way too close to our stay for us to back out and find another place that could accommodate our group. I asked him to send me photos of the pool area so we could assess the situation and be sure we could navigate our way to the pool safely. He sent that right out and we decided we could work with that and that turned out to be fine.
What we did have issue with was, that this seemed to be their primary residence, filled with their personal belongings, family photos at every turn, even the medicine cabinets were full, but what got us the most was they had two refrigerators and they were both completely full of their own food! We always purchase our groceries for the duration of our stay on the first day, so we don't have to go back out, but we had nowhere to put them, this is groceries for 9 women for four days, that is a lot of food! I texted the host and after some back and forth, and me calling VRBO, they finally came over to empty the one in the kitchen, leaving us to wipe it down so we could fill it with our food and still had move some of their frozen food to the freezer in the basement to make room for our bags of ice because he would only empty one small shelf for our ice cream.
Then Friday he texted at 7:58 a.m. to ask to roll his garbage bin out to the street for trash day! This was full of their trash, nothing of ours.
Lastly on VRBO it said the sleeping arrangements were 3 single and1 double in the basement, leading us to believe these were beds. They were actually cots and a futon! These might work for kids but extremely uncomfortable for those of us over 60. That should be changed on the VRBO site to state they: are NOT actual beds.
We' been renting a house every summer for the past 6 years and all of our past rentals were set up like a vacation place for us to come in and set up for our time there.
I've never seen anything like this, we felt uncomfortable in that it seemed like we were intruders in someone's house.