Me and DH have used Airbnb a lot and always been more than happy with the places we have stayed. We always chose the whole place and not just a room.
We stayed in place over the weekend which was a self contained apartment at the end of the owners' garden. We had our own parking space and own gate through the garden to the apartment.
We arrived Saturday afternoon and the owner showed us round. She was very nice and friendly but a bit over the top. The place was quite small with a kitchen area at the end of the living/dining room so everything was in clear view but she pointed out the fridge, the oven, microwave, washing machine etc. Then the bedroom and bathroom, again pointing everything out
She asked if we had any plans and we said we were spending Sunday with my family. She then asked if we knew what sort of time we would be out as she would come in and change the towels.
I had seen that there was a large pile of towels so said not to worry as we would not need new towels and could dry our used ones on the heated towel rail anyway,
So we unpacked and then went out to meet friends, not getting back until about 1am. We literally went to bed, got up at 8am, had a shower, ate breakfast and went out to go to my family. We washed up our breakfast things but left them on the draining board.
We didn't return until about 10pm. As soon as we got in and turned the light on we could see the carpet had been hoovered just because of the way the pile was. We then saw the owner had put the breakfast things away. I went into the bedroom and she had re-made the bed and piled all the cushions back on it (I had left them on the floor as I could not see the point of putting them on the bed only to take them off again when we went to bed).
She had put clean towels in the bathroom even though there were 4 bath towels and 6 smaller towels on the side which we had not used.
She had also tidied up my makeup and put our toothbrushes and paste which I had left on the shelf in the bathroom into one of the glasses which were there.
Both me and DH found this odd and rather annoying. The carpet didn't need hoovering (we had barely spent any time there), we would have put the breakfast things away ourselves., we didn't need new towels and I didn't want our things tidied up.
We were only there 2 nights so no need whatsoever for her to go into the place.
We go back to the area at least once a month and were hoping that we could use this place all or most of the times. It was really lovely and had everything we could have wanted. There was even things like eggs, milk, bread, 6 different breakfast cereals, croissants, jams, butter, biscuits, fruit, chocolate, tea bags, proper coffee.
DH is now adamant he doesn't want to stay there again. I tend to agree but the place is really is lovely and very reasonably priced (much cheaper than any hotel in the area and almost all the other Airbnb places).
They have loads of reviews all of which are not just positive but absolutely raving about the place.
So what would you think about it? Would you be annoyed or uneasy?