Entire home in historic Portobelo Bay

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Jen

7 years ago

There were piles of swept up dirt in the middle of each room. The fridge had brown smelly water in the bottom. the bedsheets were clean as were towels but my son and I who shared a bed were bitten by bed bugs and the pillows under the cases were black with mildew. The house is completely dilapidated. Everything metal is rusty. There were old used bars of soap in the bathrooms. A tealight by the kitchen sink was black with mould. The bedrooms are threadbare and the window ledges were covered in insect waste. The kitchen utensils were minimal and the chopping board was disgusting. There were only two chairs to rest on outside. The small wicker sofa was propped up by a bottle crate. The two sofa beds looked as though they were rusting and smelled of stale human sweat. This smell filled the living/dining/kitchen space. The plastic furniture that was the dining suite was black with mildew. I brought my elderly parents hoping to give them a real treat on their first weekend as visitors to Panama. I cried when we got there, I was so horrified by how awful the place was. I am an Airbnb host myself and I would be ashamed to charge that much for such a place.