If these owners expect me to pay $500 a night for rent, I expect them to swing by Home Depot and pay 15 bucks for a new toilet seat so I’m not sitting on a 30 year old urine stained, nasty mess. I expect them to swing by TJ Maxx and spend 200 bucks on new comforters to replace the 30 year old polyester, pilled, stained, dusty, and just plain nasty comforter sets. The huge stain in my comforter was an added bonus of grossness. The pillows were rock hard, yellow stained, at least 10 years old, with no pillow protectors. They were just gross. They sell pillows in sets at TJ Maxx for 25 bucks. There were no blankets in my room, but we found some old, scratchy blankets downstairs. New fuzzy and soft blankets run about 25 bucks at TJ Maxx. Seriously. These owners are either incredibly greedy, or just plain gross. This condo was build in the 90’s. I believe that nothing new has been brought here, excluding electronics, since that time.
I regularly stay in Motel 6 when I travel with my dogs, so I’m not a hotel snob. This place made Motel 6 look like the freaking Taj Majal with their nice mattresses and pillows manufactured witching this millennia. I have showered in Papua New Guinea with roaches crawling inches from my face on the ceiling and you know what? That wasn’t half as gross as this condo.
I own a VRBO lake house and would never expect my guests to accept conditions anything like this. There are two types of owners. Ones like me who are into hospitality and having excellent reviews and return guests, and ones like these owners who bank on having enough new people wanting to ski that they can just turn and burn guests. Even the owners note about the Wi-Fi is oddly condescending and threatening, “If you touch this, you will not have Wi-Fi for the rest of your stay!” As if Vacasa can’t send a handyman in to help. (The on-site management team is great.)
Definitely not the hospitality kind of people.
Yes, ski condos are supposed to be filled with second hand furniture and fabulous old crap from our primary homes, that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about owner neglect so severe that it reads as filth and arrogance. Please, take half a nights profit and buy some decent linens, pillows, and cookware. A wine opener wouldn’t kill anyone either.
Vacasa is great, this neighborhood is great, just pick ANY other condo than this one.