We get on our transportation to our AirBnB, everything looked promising at first but that quickly changed. The place looked like the pictures but at the same time did not. Everything was rough around the edges and worn. The caretaker didn't speak any English so there was another guy who did the talking. They provided water bottles which were all re-used plastic water bottles refilled with "filtered" water. We walked the rooms and noticed everything was dirty and rundown. There were whole pieces of door frames missing. Switches covered in grime, broken outlets, broken heaters and the indoor pool was actually not indoor, it was fenced in and open air to the inside of the house. This caused the whole house to be completely cold almost worse than the villages.
We were so tired that we tried to make the best of it. We all went to take showers and NO HOT WATER. Tried to connect to the wifi so we could communicate with the caretaker, NO WIFI. We were able to get the wifi "working" and the caretaker indicated the hot water heaters had to be turned on and wait a few minutes. Why this wasn't done before our arrival, I have no idea. My son's room's floor was so dirty the caretaker had to clean it. Finally time for showers......NOPE hot water only lasted 1 minute or less before it went to freezing cold. It was a 16L hot water heater and showers use roughly 15 L per minute!! Noticed in our bathroom there was no glass on the window so all the cold air was rushing in. I immediately contacted AirBnB and asked to get out of the room ASAP. It took a couple hours to get a response from AirBnB and never any response from the Host, they wanted to try and reach the host to see if they could "fix the issue". Not sure how you fix an open air house missing a fourth wall to keep cold air out and how you fix the hot water tanks being so small.
In the middle of the night, the power went out so now the heaters didn't work and the wife but some of the lights worked. Not in my room of course. I honestly think the caretaker killed the power because it happened right after I said it was time to go to bed. The caretaker's bedroom was on the other side of the wall where I was, so maybe coincidental, but I don't know. When the power came back on I heard a noise like a breaker box being closed which reaffirms my theory.
Finally got AirBnB to agree to a 30% refund for the first night and 100% for the next two nights. DEAL!!
Off to Radisson Jaipur City Centre
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