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[quote=Anonymous]Our AirBnBs have been a fair value but they have had some memorable minor inconveniences.  We didn't contact the hosts for these mainly because of unlikeliness of a quick solution.

Nice Paris rental company apartment with 4 separate beds (and three bedroom spaces and 2 bathrooms).  Had weird dishwasher with no instructions and no detergent.  Just some kind of hard water add-on powder.  The cheap ceramic IKEA plates were fragile.  We go years without breaking dishes at home.  Broke 2-3 plates in one week.  Thermostat appeared to have a remote override or program that undid my mom's manually-set temperature preferences every morning.  So she would wake up cold and we'd come back to a chilly unit.

London flat in a carved-up house.  2 bedroom, 2 bath with garden and washer/dryer.  As described, but house had incense sticks and jars out in several places.  I wrapped them in aluminum foil for the duration.  The sheets (including the spare set) were washed in a fragranced detergent that overperfumed them.  I believe it didn't rinse out well (washed on site). I took the case off the pillow and put a towel over it for a day until the case aired out enough.  Euro-style washer took forever so never had time to supervise a sheets load because we were washing our trip clothes in the evenings.

Edinburgh apartment had a closet with cleaning supplies and toilet paper but no spare light bulbs.  When we arrived, several bulbs were burned out and more burned out during our stay.  They were something special like small halogens.  I ended up moving some around so we could enjoy the kitchen and living room.during our stay.  Mini gas stove didn't have instructions on how to ignite the burners and oven.

Toronto condo.  Instructed to find clean towels in the washer/dryer.  The cleaning service apparently hadn't set the cycle correctly so the towels were slightly damp and stinky.  (Another one of those Euro appliances that doesn't work quickly or well.)  So first thing we did was rewash the towels.

Bath townhouse.  Interesting quirky artist's townhouse right around the corner from the Cathedral.  For some reason, we were required to take all of our trash out to streetcorner public trashcan.  This required using wastepaper-basket-sized trash bags.  Because the public bins opened like USPS blue mailboxes.  I never understood why this was necessary but it was spelled out in the rental terms and mentioned a lot in the reviews.

Overall, I would re-rent each of these places based on their positive aspects.  All had sufficient reviews when we rented.

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