This was the most disappointing experience I have ever had with a rental from VRBO or anywhere else for that matter. I took my sisters to celebrate a 6 month recovery from a heart attack. This cabin was so disgusting that we brought our baggage in the front door, took a look around and realized we could not spend even one night there. Here is what we walked into and I have the pictures and video to prove it:
• Dead bugs and bug debris in the bathroom drawer, along with a wet rag and used bar of soap with hair in it - next to the blow dryer
• Pillows on the bed in main bedroom smelled like sweat and perspiration - didn't even check the others
• Absolutely filthy outdoor chairs and tables
• Dirty windows, grimy and spotted and hard to see through in some cases
• Large cobwebs in numerous places, both inside and outside of the cabin
• Filthy under the kitchen sink
• Bad smell throughout the cabin
• Two small TVs stacked in a closet, not viewable from the bed, assuming they even worked
• Only 3 glasses in the kitchen, but 16 coffee mugs?
• Entire control panel missing from stove vent, exposing the interior
• Blinds missing in downstairs bedroom, looking out onto hot tub, one window had blinds, the one next to it did not
• 7 remotes on TV in main room, with no visible instructions how to use any of them to simply watch TV
• Missing drawers in bedroom dresser
Even worse than any of the items above were what I considered to be Safety Hazards such as:
• Some type of growth that looked like mold growing on wall in the bottom floor, directly below the cracks in the wall
• Several electrical hazards including dangling wires
• Numerous lights not working, making the cabin very dark and potentially dangerous (i.e 2 of 4 not working in kitchen and 2 of 5 out in dining room)
• Overwhelming smell of rotten fish (?) in the fridge which permeated throughout the main floor whenever the fridge was opened.
• Top of handrail going into the basement was loose and apparently repaired incorrectly with a small Phillips screw which did not secure it properly
I tried to work with the owner but sadly my dealings with him that day and afterwards were even worse than the cabin and there was no remedy. Based strictly on my experience, I would NEVER rent a cabin from him again.