Room in Chef’s Home w/Meals & More

Homestay in Winston Park - Barcley Estates - St. Petersburg, United States

About the Homestay

Suburban Cosy
  • Welcomes
  • Males
  • Females
  • Couples
  • Families
  • Students

I'm a professional chef and have lived in Paris & Brazil. I prepare a full meal every night, and have hosted travelers and ESL students since 2011.
As I’m welcoming strangers into my home, I only consider requests from guests who introduce themselves properly and have a profile picture.
To reserve the room, I require a 50% deposit, with the balance paid the day before arrival. Guests pay any transfer fees.
I try to keep my room booked, so I don't accept reservations more than a week or 2 in advance, and only open my calendar for 5 weeks. So the room may be available for longer than my calendar indicates--please ask!
My price does include self-serve breakfast and a full-course dinner every night, and I also offer an optional Bento lunch for an additional charge.
-Dinner is served when ready, between 7 & 8 pm. If you won’t be home for dinner, please tell me the night before.
This site's pricing is confusing, because although my price includes breakfast and dinner, the description defaults to "Please note that only a light breakfast is included in the room rate. All other meals will incur an additional cost."
but it also says
"INCLUDED IN THE STAY
Full Breakfast
Half Board"
Bottom line: dinner is included! Lunch available at extra cost.

Bedrooms available for booking

Minimum stay is for 28 nights

Maximum stay is for 365 nights

Check-in date must be before 28 Jun 2024

Available for given dates

Long stay? If you have a reoccuring schedule where days in the week do not require accommodation, you can unselect those days below. This will inform the host and reduce the price of your stay.

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Single Room
From $46 per night
Single Room
Sleeps 1

Bathroom private (exclusive to guest)
1 Single Bed

Bedroom availableNot available for dates

As shown in photos, room is private, next to kitchen. Bathroom is private, as I have my own bathroom with my bedroom. Room has a bed with linens & towels, wardrobe closet, chest of drawers, night table, lamp and view of lake out the window.

Facilities
  • Desk and Lamp
  • Air Conditioning
  • Dresser / Drawers
  • Closet / Wardrobe
  • Bedside Locker / Nightstand
  • Mirror
 1 guest
Weekly Price
$360
Monthly price
$1,400
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About the Area

It's a safe, quiet neighborhood, one of the best in the city, sometimes called Barcley Estates and other times called Winston Park, filled with large, older houses and newer/renovated homes like this one.

I moved here in October, and everything is a short drive or bike ride away: stores, beaches, parks, tourist attractions, schools. I intend to get a bicycle to continue exploring, and will appreciate the lack of hills as my Boston house was at the top of one of highest hills around.

Many restaurants nearby:
Sushi, Dim Sum, other Asian, Italian
and shops:
Publix, Winn-Dixie, Walmart, CVS, Target and, as they say, much much more

8 minutes to Sawgrass Lake Park
10 minutes to Weedon Island Preserve
15 minutes to Arrowhead Park
15 minutes to downtown St. Pete
15 minutes to Dalí Museum and Chihuly Collection
15 minutes to Tropicana Field
15 minutes to St. Pete–Clearwater International Airport
17 minutes to St. Pete Pier
20 minutes to Tampa
20 minutes to Tampa International Airport
30 minutes to St. Pete Beach

Local Area Facilities
  • Park
  • Gym
  • Golf
  • Swimming
  • Beach
  • Cinema
  • Library
  • Museum
  • Shopping Centre
  • Water sports
  • Fishing
  • Restaurant
  • Airport
  • Bus Stop
  • Hospital

Meals

Hosts can offer a complimentary light breakfast at their discretion. All other meals, including a full breakfast, might incur an additional cost, if offered. Meals and any additional payment should be arranged directly with your host.

Included in the stay
  • Complimentary Light Breakfast
  • Use of Kitchen
Available on request at an extra cost
  • Full Breakfast
  • Half Board
Diet Type available on request
  • Vegetarian

House Rules

I do NOT accept smokers or users of fragrances, even aerosol spray, as I am allergic.

This is a single room, for one person. Overnight guests are not allowed.

I provide self-serve breakfast and full dinner, which are included in the price, and offer a bento box lunch option at additional cost.

Please note:
I book by the week, not the calendar month. A week starts Sunday and ends Saturday. I do this because different months have different numbers of days (31, 30 and 28 or 29 in leap year) and I feel it is fair to charge for the nights stayed.

If the room isn't reserved, I may be able to be more flexible with the check-in and check-out time—just ask.
Guests are asked to respect the cleanliness and order of my home by removing shoes (bring slippers!) and keeping noise from computer, music and phone low enough that others outside the room cannot hear. Quiet hours are between 10 pm & 8 am.

Breakfast is self-serve: coffee/tea/milk, bread/pastry, fruit. Guests clean up after breakfast: put dishes in dishwasher and wipe counter & table. Please do not leave dishes in sink or crumbs on table/counter, or bring food into you room.
As dinners are included and significant effort goes into their preparation, guests help by setting the table, washing dishes, and taking out recycling & sweeping floor.
For vegetarians and vegans:
I do cook meat for myself. There will also be vegetables, grain and salad—but not necessarily a vegetarian entree every night. Guests are expected to wash all dinner dishes, even ones that had meat on them. If that doesn’t work for you, please don’t book. Thank you.
I'm a professional chef and enjoy cooking, but am temperamental about sharing my kitchen, so guests have limited kitchen access: they prepare a self-serve breakfast but I cook dinner.
Dinner is between 7:00 and 8:00 pm. If you won't be home for dinner, please notify me the night before.
Because my refrigerator is almost always full I do not save dinner for lunch the next day. Dinner is served at night; if you don't come home for dinner, it is not available to be eaten for lunch the next day.
Please sign up by Thursday night for weekend dinners so I can buy food and plan meals.

Please clean up after yourself in the bathroom: do not leave hair in the sink or bathtub. Please do not flush dental floss down the toilet--it will clog the pipes.
Guests who stay longer than a week clean their own rooms during their stay, including dusting and vacuuming.
Please get permission before bringing any guests home. Sleepovers of un-registered guests are not allowed.

Do not put hot pots, especially the kettle, on the countertop or breakfast table. Make tea or coffee on the stovetop. If you burn the surface and it leaves a mark, you will have to pay for the repair.

Cell phones are not allowed at the dinner table.
No smoking
Not suitable for pets
No parties
Check-in is after 6 PM. Check-out is 10:00 am.

Payment Method: Please note that I require guests to pay 50% of the booking total to me upon booking to hold the room (on top of the 15% deposit is paid to Homestay.com)
The balance is due on arrival in cash, PayPal or bank transfer.

If you are paying by PayPal, please process the payment as
FRIENDS AND FAMILY
not
GOODS AND SERVICES.
If you process as Friends and Family, there will be no fee.
If you process as Goods and Services, they will charge me a fee, which I expect you to reimburse me for.
Thank you.

Cancellation Policy: If guests cancel more than 14 days prior to booking date, half of the deposit will be refunded. Any cancellation later than that will not be refunded.

I accept PayPal, or direct transfer to my bank. Guest will pay any transfer fees, including ones charged to me by PayPal or my bank.

Smoking Rules

Your host is a non-smoker.

Smoking is not allowed.

3 Reviews

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    China
    Age 18 - 24

    5 hearts
    July 2022

    This guest awarded the host 5 hearts but didn’t leave any comments.

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    Japan
    Age 18 - 24

    5 hearts
    January 2022

    Michael is an amazing host father!
    He is very welcoming, helpful, and funny. I enjoyed his professional dinner and his jokes every night. There are some rules that people need to follow, but they are all acceptable and at least amount of rules to stay someone’s home. Also, his house’s basement is somewhat interesting. lol Although I stayed with Michael just for a week, I spent a great time there. Thank you!!

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    Mexico
    Age 25 - 34

    5 hearts
    November 2019

    Staying with Michael was the most amazing experience I ever had using Homestay/Airbnb. Michael cooks amazing food for you every night and has amazing stories for every minute.

How do I book?

Contact the host to check their availability and ask them any questions you have about staying with them. Once the host confirms they’re available for your dates, you can complete your booking.

When do I pay?

Once a host confirms they're available, you can go ahead and pay the 15% booking fee (maximum of 250 $£€ for longer term bookings) and a 25% deposit using a choice of payments: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Maestro, Laser, JCB & PayPal. The deposit is collected in advance on behalf of the host to protect against no show or late cancellations (within 7 days of arrival). You then pay your host the balance due on arrival. The 25% deposit payment is made to the host 2 business days after your scheduled arrival date. This deposit payment will only be refunded if you cancel the booking at least 7 full days prior to arrival.

When can I share my contact details?

Host and Guest email address, phone number and home address will be exchanged in a confirmation email sent to both immediately after a booking is completed. It's against our policy for Guests and Hosts to exchange direct contact details via our messaging system.

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