2/10 Terrible
Phil H.
18 November 2018
We left as soon as we could. It's a roll of the dice whether this'll be a good stay for you or not.
We've stayed at plenty of VRBO and other home-stay places. Most are awesome but our experience here was so awful (for reasons that'll become obvious below) that we cut our stay short.
The room you'll be in is basically what would probably be a modestly sized (not big as the photos imply) back room of a property (there's even a locked internal door which probably goes through to the rest of it) that in our case had other people in the rest of that side of the house *and* other people on the other side of what was our bedroom wall. Not a problem itself except the walls are thin enough to hear pretty much everything that's going on elsewhere in the property. Everything. All the time and at every hour of the day.
In our case this meant being an unwilling audience to the partying couple in the part of the building behind our headboard as they went hard and loud at drinking, talking, singing, stomping around, clinking bottles, crashing doors, making out, dropping stuff on the floors and a whole raft of other stuff. Until around 3:30am. We'd got back from an event Downtown around midnight and the party was in full swing and didn't let up (apart from a brief moment when one or both went out for what we guess were more supplies). By 3am, we got onto the web and found somewhere (anywhere) else to check into and got the heck out first thing that morning. BTW, none of what the partiers were up to is wrong as such; we just don't want to pay to be kept awake by it.
I messaged Byrnadette at 3am to let her know we'd be leaving asap. She messaged back late morning - by which time we'd long since left - and said "wish I had known earlier and contacted the neighbours"... well, she was contacted at 3am (and didn't respond until 8 hours later so presumably didn't exactly jump to action then) so I'm not sure what else "earlier" could've been. During that same exchange, she said “Sorry to hear this R u sure u don’t want to come back... current neighbors r checking out today at 11... And the property Should be super quiet tonight” which to us means those noisy guests were hers too. Not cool.
So far the owner/manager - Byrnadette – has refused to refund anything despite the issue being within her remit. The dispute is currently with VRBO.
You might be luckier than we were - people have written positive reviews for this place – but it really is a case of the luck and where your expectations are at. And whether you can sleep through noise.
Phil H.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2018
