I stayed this weekend in the walk-out basement apartment of a very nice older couple's home. The unit had an infestation of millipedes. By infestation, I mean that upon arrival, there were several dead ones along each wall of the unit (1 bedroom, living room, laundry/bathroom), a dead one in the tub, as well as a few live ones crawling across the carpet. We opened the sofa bed to find countless dead insects on the floor inside the sofa bed and a live one crawling in it. We left for a few hours and when we came back there were 3 or 4 in each room crawling across the carpet and within an hour they all curled up and died. I noticed a bottle of Raid in the waist basket. I went to bed wondering if any would make it up to the bed during the night and wondering what I should do. When I woke up the next morning, there were 4-5 more crawling in each room. I messaged the host and she came right down and picked most of them up and offered to spray more Raid. I asked for a dustbuster, which she did not have, and said I wasn't sure which I'd rather sleep with, the bugs or the chemicals, so she just sprayed the outside. More millipedes kept coming and dying during our stay. This morning, more millipedes and a cockroach. I would overlook a few dead bugs along baseboards, but the live ones that kept coming was unpleasant...what would I step on in the night on the way to the bathroom? I don't have bugs like this in my home and would rather they had not been in this one. Still, the property itself was great, great host, the rest fo the place was clean, and I would stay there again provided that the bugs had been dealt with. I don't want to leave a bad review, in part because I don't want to hurt this older couples' source of income, or their feelings, and in part because we may visit that area again and would want to be welcomed back (if they've taken care of the bugs). On the flip side, I know many of my friends would not have stayed the night there and in writing a review, I feel obligated to be honest for the sake of future guests. I could leave no review at all. If I do write one, what is the best way to word it to not hurt the host or burn the bridge? And while I'm posting...this property was listed as having two bedrooms, but it was actually one bedroom, and a living room/kitchen combo with an unmade sofa bed. Should the listing be more accurate? There were multiple photos of the outside of the home, with one picture each of the rooms I mentioned. So...obviously no second bedroom pictured, so I suppose it was implied. Do I spell it out in my review for future guests, or suggest more accuracy in a private message to the host?
