AITA Advice on VRBO
Rented a VRBO that has an amazing pool. I paid over $600 a night for my family of 5. It has an amazing pool with 2 hot tubs and a water slide. Lots of outdoor entertaining space. We were all really looking forward to a 3 day day extended weekend with lots of pool and BBQ time. Once I arrived at the rental and read the house manual I learned that we are only allowed 3 hours of slide and hot tub time until we are charged $50 an hour. The hot tub runs on a different pump apparently and is a 2 hour minimum. Which means if we ever want the hot tub, that automatically takes 2 hours off and then one hour of slide. This was never disclosed in the listing when we booked. What is also annoying is I have to text the owner every time we want to turn it on. Wait for them to read the text and then remotely they turn it on. The first day the slide kept turning off after 20 minutes. I have 3 kids that would continually be let down when the slide water would abruptly stop. The owner said it was on for an hour each time. I had to argue and show them the time stamps of my text requests before they said “oh it must be set to 20 minutes”. There have been other inaccurate statements like that throughout our stay. The outside patio lights are super bright and we can’t sleep with them on. They are on a timer and owner said they turn off at 10:00. Well last night they turned off at 11:30. We had to have pillows covering our eyes. After the lights went off we took off the pillows and started hearing rats in the walls gnawing and running around. Pillows went back on but this time over our ears. I recorded that for the owners. AITA for wanting to report this to the VRBO peeps. Honestly, I thought this was going to be my coolest rental ever and it’s turned out to be the worst.