The Village Homestay

🇨🇦Two major issues with this homestay:

1. 💩STAINED SHEETS🤮
We had 2 king size beds in our room, one of which had a large brown stain in the bottom sheet- from a human ?... we didn’t give it the sniff test since we were only staying for one night and we had the other bed to sleep in.

2. 🤑BEWARE THE MINI FRIDGE🤕
The mini fridge had a couple of bottles of water, and several small-cans of Coca Cola and local cheap beer. In our month+ of staying at home-stays and hotels in Vietnam it has been very common to receive complementary drinks upon check-in, as the local unfiltered water is risky to drink.

There was nothing written on the mini-fridge, room info-card, or on any check-in communications that the waters / canned beverages in the fridge were not complementary. They were cheap soda, beer and water bottles so we thought they would make it clear if they were not free. So around 1:30am we drank the waters and soda, since nobody was at the front desk we could have asked and the mini-marts in the neighborhood were all closed.

When we checked out of our room, the matron of the homestay put a bill in front of us, charging us for all of the drinks, and when we explained that we assumed it was complementary as drinks have been with other home-stays, she became irate. We offered to pay for just the canned beverages but she continued to raise her voice. She was totally unwilling to consider our perspective, and her responsibility in failing to communicate verbally or in writing.

TLDR; Possible human waste on sheets and shitty behavior.

🇫🇷Deux problèmes majeurs avec ce séjour chez l'habitant :

1. 💩DRAPS TACHÉS🤮
Nous avions deux lits « king size » dans notre chambre ; l'un d'eux présentait une large tache brune sur le drap-housse — d'origine humaine ?... Nous n'avons pas procédé au « test olfactif », car nous ne restions qu'une seule nuit et nous avions l'autre lit pour dormir.

2.

The smell in the room

Loved the place but if we were picky the one issue we had was the smell of cigarette smoke managing to make its way into our room upstairs through a vent from an adjacent room.

The entrance hall and property (attic next to our room) was very messy. Our room was up 5 flights of stairs (61 steps) with no elevator so the air-con was well needed after the trek. On our last morning we had no water or electricity, and were not informed of the reason. We chose not to do the breakfast as there was no dining area that seemed appropriate. No dustbin in the room. We stayed for 2 days and room was not serviced.

Auch wenn wir unser Zimmer nach hinten raus hatten, war es leider sehr laut. Über unserem Zimmer war der Abfluss von den Hauseigentümern und die Waschmaschine. Der Abfluss hörte sich so an, als ob er direkt über einem fließt. Aber für den Preis kann man eigentlich nur auf hohem Niveau meckern

Nothing, we enjoyed our stay.

No TV in room due to repair. No replacement made for our entire 4 days stay. No lift and big luggage needed to be carried up n down. We are boarded at level 2. On arrival,the owner helped us to lift the luggage up to our room,but on departure in the early morning, we needed to carry the luggage down. Tough for seniors