Finches Nest

You all know I only write about exceptional experiences or terrible experiences.
Little lengthy but here it goes:
Cabins in Hocking/​Finches Nest,
I paid the cabin in full for 4 people. Two days later I notice ANOTHER charge on my card for $ 200. I was not notified or contacted by anyone from the cabin rental or manager to tell me another charge would incur or for what reason. I HAD TO CALL THEM AND FIND OUT! I was given a vague reason/​reasons. (broken jacuzzi filter and at least 8 guests that were seen by «neighbors»). 8 people? false. Also the four of us spent most of our weekend indoors due to the rain.
Note: The cabin manager said since all of the bedrooms were slept in this was another reason for my additional charge. We stayed inside for the majority of the time because it was raining for both days. The manager is charging us also because the «neighbors» heard loud music? From what? my laptop?
YOUR CREDIT CARD WILL GET CHARGED WITHOUT YOUR APPROVAL AND WITHOUT GETTING NOTIFIED BY THE PROPERTY MANAGER/​OWNER.
Here was my experience:
Arrived at cabin, the thermostat was OFF and the temp. read 61 °F, When we turned the heat on the kitchen was too hot b/​c there are two vents in the kitchen and upstairs room was still cold even by the last day. Had to stay in downstairs bedroom the second night.
Bedrooms: upstairs was uncomfortably cold due to the fact that the single vent did not push any heat up, and I didn’t feel safe sleeping with the space heater plugged in all night. I slept in the downstairs bedroom the second night.
*middle bedroom near the bathroom had some random small dead bug, look around if you do decide to stay at Finches Nest
The remote controls didn’t work, so had to use the TV and manually change channels or watch movies.
The shower tub was chipped (wear flip flops in the shower if you do decide to come here), and the shower door was broken (flapping out of its hinge) as well. I think a few other guests noted this in the guest book provided in the kitchen.
The basement is freezing and it smells like sewage (There is an air hockey table down there but we didn’t use it due to the previous reasons).
The sheets were stained and so were the towels. **if you do decide to visit, bring your own towels and sheets!**
The Jacuzzi was cracked and didn’t have enough water in it.
Grill– rusty, dirty, and did not heat up.
The second day of our stay there was a silver/​beige SUV that stayed at the bottom of the hill for 20 minutes, when we started walking toward this man and ask what was going on he skidded off. That was super creepy, and that’s probably why I couldn’t sleep so I stayed up until 4AM watching movies.
We left the cabin exactly the way we found it, I read their laminated paper over twice to be sure everything would be ok. We placed all linens in the laundry, swept the floors, took out the garbage, swept around the Jacuzzi, deck, grilling area and checked the premises to make sure there was no garbage left around. This lady wants to charge us for what the neighbors saw or heard. These people will try to scam you out of extra money. There is a charge of $ 45/​hr to clean the cabin if you left it a mess, I guess they didn’t like that we left it in the exact condition we found it (I have photos).
TIPS:
if you do decide to stay here: TAKE BEFORE AND AFTER PHOTOS LIKE I DID. Use only the bedrooms you paid for otherwise they will lie and say you had additional guests and charge your card without authorization. Lastly, even you put out the trash in bags they will count them and and tell you it’s too much garbage. Maybe if they had a recycling bin.
No one to greet us or tour the house with us to note the items mentioned above.
LASTLY:
After panicking about the random charge because I didn’t know what it was, I then called the manager of the cabin. I requested photos and an itemized receipt of the $ 80 Jacuzzi filter the cabin manager charged me for and said was broke and a written breakdown of the charges.
I HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY PHOTO OF THE BROKEN JACUZZI FILTER, OR ITEMIZED RECEIPT. HER REASONS KEEP CHANGING ABOUT THE CHARGE.
Instead I was called a liar.
I will NEVER go back to FINCHES NEST or any cabins at
due to how they try and scam customers. Maybe the next person won’t be so lucky and their card will get charged hundreds of dollars. why? that grill needs to be replaced soon and maybe the manager will say you broke it or stole it, and the «neighbors» saw it all, so they will take it upon themselves to charge y arbitrary amount on your card.

This is the worst experience staying at a cabin i have ever had. The bad i slept in was dirty and there were black bugs in it and the towels in the comforter was dirty. The towels in the bathroom were dirty. The icemaker the remote controls and the shower door were broken. The grill was in bad shape and it was full of rust. We bearly managed to cook on it. The owner or someone hired by the owner was spying on us after he stopped the car on the road close to the cabin. When we got in the cabin it was freezing and there were a great deal of flies near the window area. Noone greeted us when we got to the cabin which from my point of view is disrespectful.

This place was a dump.
Don’t be swayed by the website or YouTube video of the Finches Nest in Hocking HIlls they are seriously dated.
Every bed in the place was worthless. It was also not clean when we arrived. The door mats and bath mats were dirty — visibly dirty — not washed before our arrival. How do we know? We washed them, and they were infinitely better.
We were promised 3 TVs with DVD players. The basement TV had no remote to use it. The main floor TV remote literally had a bite taken out of it, so not all controls were usable, and finally when we went to the upstairs bedroom, we discovered the cables connecting the DVD player to the TV were missing!
We complained to the owners about the TVs, and we were promised new Universal Remotes were on their way… they didn’t arrive within the next 5 days before we departed.
Several light bulbs throughout the place were burnt out, with no extras available. Kitchen knives were missing components, much of the cookware was unusable. The gas grill was a relic from ancient times, and we had difficulty getting the temp high enough to cook burgers.
We should have known. When we booked, we paid half — but the actual address of this house was not revealed until the balance was paid. Even then, we didn’t know what we were getting into until we arrived.
Finches Nest gives the word «cabin» a bad name. At the end of the day — for the price — this was not worth what you receive in accommodations.
It also claims to be «remote.» That is an understatement. At least they warned us on that one, so I can’t really complain other than to say we drove by many more cabins that are closer to attractions, that are far more suitable for families on vacation.
I would not recommend the Finches Nest as an accommodation for anyone.