This was my first stay at a property owned by a large corporate entity and it did not meet my expectations. The condition of the property was excellent, cleanliness good, the listing accurate and the location is great, but it was devoid of the personal touches I've come to expect over the last 15 years of renting on the island.
We rented two places this trip, this one and another very modest one for the grandparents to hideout in. The other place was very basic without even a dishwasher, but it had all the extras I've come to expect - coffee, coffee filters, extra garbage bags, dish cleaning fluids, basic condiments, toilet paper for the week, sharp knives and clothes washing fluids. They even included two bottles of wine (I've never seen that before).
In fairness to the host I didn't contact them about the deficiencies to give them a chance to correct things. I'm on vacation and don't expect to act in a quality control capacity.
Here were the problems:
- dishwasher filter and arms filthy and clogged (I have the same model at home so I cleaned it myself) Put that on your cleaners checklist
- dishwasher did not dry dishes (I suspect the heating element is burned out) Your cleaner should have noted this
- knives are very dull and thus dangerous (I brought a knife sharpener from the other place, but it could only do so much)
- no coffee filters (I bring coffee, but don't know which filters to get)
- General lack of consumables
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