It was past midnight, and our daughter-in-law went to get in bed and she felt something fly by her head! It was a BAT! She screamed loudly, and my husband came running. The bat landed and was hanging on the log wall. We took a picture for proof for the owner. We messaged the owner and she called the DWR. The DWR officer arrived and discovered bat guano, but NO BAT! He said that the bat went up through the insulation to get out. He said shutting down 1 bedroom wouldn't stop the bat from entering in ANY of the bedrooms upstairs. The bat was in the attic/insulation above ALL the upstair rooms. The bat could reappear ANYWHERE! The officer wanted to kill the bat to send it in to test for RABIES. He said, often people don't realize they've been bit! The officer was not willing to climb through insulation and left without retrieving the BAT!
My family had to scheduled PTO, and we made many arrangements for this trip. It's a 9-hour round-trip drive. We towed our SXS, dirt bikes, paddle boards and kayaks. We spent $1000 total in gas and groceries. How could we abandon this trip with SO much money invested? Every night was scary for all of us to go to bed. Can you imagine lying there in the dark hoping a bat doesn't land on your face? Needless to say, we didn't sleep well!
Also in the bunkroom downstairs, we killed 2 large spiders, on different nights, and my 12 year old son found 2 large crickets in his bed! YIKES! One got away, but my son managed to kill one of them and yelled for me! I came running down. He was SO terrified that he'd been sleeping with 2 big crickets in his sheets! This is 4 insects in the course of our 4 night stay in one room! I took a picture of the large dead cricket for proof.
We paid so much money for 4 nights at this cabin. We reached out to the owner for compensation. We didn't ask for a full refund, because during the day we left to do our activities and didn't worry about the bat. The owner must ensure their cabin is free from PESTS. Please don't tell me we are in the woods, and I should expect it. We just asked for 50% compensation/refund because we SALVAGED our trip and stayed. We felt that sharing the burden equally was fair for both owner and our family. However, the owner refused to compensate 50% and SHARE responsibility! She said, you chose to stay. How heartless! She BARELY refunded 1/7th of our TOTAL cost of her cabin! There was a FREAKING BAT flying around us in her cabin and CRICKETS in my son's bed!