When we arrived we had to go to the owner’s house (Dawn) to follow her to the cabin, and she let us in and showed us around - without a mask so the “no person-to-person contact check in” was a total lie.
We didn’t love this as we had not idea if she’s been vaccinated against COVID-19.
We had no hot water. We let Dawn know and she and her husband came to the cabin immediately and came right in. I appreciated the quick response, but we are still in a pandemic so I was not thrilled that they came right in with no masks. Dawn said she would contact their handy man after they had checked the breaker and hot water heater. I got a text later in the evening (we had left so my phone must’ve gotten service for a split second) saying the handyman would be coming first thing sat morning. Again, we appreciated the quick response, but that didn’t work for us. (We brought our elderly dog who is recovering from an injury and needs to be kept calm so having strangers roll through the cabin (again) would get him worked up and that’s last thing we needed.) There was zero cell service, I wasn’t able to call over WiFi, and there was no land line so communicating with the owner was rough. I messaged on the vrbo app letting her know that that time wasn’t good, but the app was having issues too. We ended up putting a note on the door in the event the handy man (also no clue about his vaccination status) did show saying not to knock or enter. It’s a good thing we did because we heard him come, make it to the door, see the note and then leave. We would rather deal with no hot water for 2 days rather than put our dog at risk for re-injury. This whole scenario just made the entire trip stressful, very unfun, and unrelaxing.
Other items of note:
- There were ants and other bugs aplenty in the house.
- The old used sponges sitting at the sink made us grossed out considering the place is advertised as “disinfectanted”.
- Overall not very clean. I dropped my phone down a couch cushion and when I went to retrieve the phone I was grossed out by what I found.
- Bathroom is tiny, but functional. There was a good amount of mold along the baseline of the shower, but we could only do “sink scrubs” due to lack of hot water so it wasn’t a problem for us.
- Without hot water it creeped us out that it was fairly likely that the sheets we used weren’t cleaned with the advertised hot water being at 140+ degrees.
We came up for a family wedding & didn’t have another option.