The property listing is extremely deceptive and the host is impossible to deal with.
The house has five bedrooms, not six. The 6th "bedroom" is a sleep-sofa in the common area on the 2nd floor.
The listing says you can book up to 10 unrelated people or 16 family members but they don't mention until you are committed that you must pay extra for every guest over 5. Plus 4 of the 5 bedrooms share a very small bathroom on the upper level. Host took over 2 weeks to modify my charges when I found only 5 were going to be present for the entire 8 day stay, couldn't figure out how to modify charge for 6th person who would only be there for a couple of days (I spent many hours of my own time on the phone with VRBO solving his problem for him), and also insisting on charging extra guest fees for two people who would only be day visitors on a couple of afternoons. We would have had others visit during the day but had to meet them at restaurants instead to avoid ridiculous charges. Listing says they are pet friendly up to 2 animals, PDF (that you only see after committing to the rental) says no pets, and final agreement with host was to pay $25 per day per animal, for which he promptly tried to overcharge me. Listing says they take children, PDF says they don't.
Spa, which was a major attraction for taking the rental, only has seating for 8 people, I believe listing advertises 16 and it was ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING AND COMPLETELY UNUSABLE. When we arrived there was so much chlorine in the water that the fumes burned our eyes and throats so we didn't get in and the test strip was off the charts. Plus it had a black bathtub ring at the water line. We cleaned it up, spent $100 of our own money rebalancing it, but then discovered the phospate reading was 4000 when it should have been under100. How does phospate get into a spa/hot tub? Why by people peeing in it. No thanks.
What else?
The toaster was broken, the threshold between the breakfast area and the sun porch is loose and a tripping hazard, One of the sinks in the upstairs bathroom drips and the mixing valve in the shower is faulty, one of the living room chairs has a broken arm, the dust pan has a hole melted in it making it way less effective for cleanup, and the yard is sadly neglected.
The interior of the house was clean, the beds were comfortable, and the space was adequate to meet our needs, but I wouldn't stay here again for all the tea in China and cannot in good conscience recommend it to others.
