Sounds typically Mexican. Lovely. 
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Jaquoāit sounds as though yāall enjoy more urban environments for vacay. Obviously this makes exact addresses much more important because there is a big difference between being 2 miles from the Louvre versus 9 miles. The people who come to my little house come to hide from the noisy , peopley world . And to visit a large freshwater spring of the first magnitude which is a couple miles from us. In any case , I have never seen an Airbnb listing that said up front " Our address is 200 Main Street " . Now sometimes admittedly you can figure it out if the copy says " Be sure and visit the historic Fernandez house museum next door". Anyway, for now , Ive taken my listing down .
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Thatās funny, you should come to Romania and see how almost every little village has its main road named Strada PrincipalÄ -which literally means Main Street. Only the central village of a commune has a postal code, and a single commune can include up to eight villages scattered across the hills.
Even telecommunications providers and postal services struggle with addresses like: Commune Xxx, postcode YYYYYYY, No. 5 Main Street. You definitely need to provide a phone number, but even these are lost on G2->G5 network upgrades! I once had to pin a location on Google Maps and OpenStreetMap just to make a property reachable for the postman. He kept delivering parcels to No. 5 Main Street in different villages and then charged me extra for transportation!
In this business the big challenge when trying to let AI making decisions is not training it with local realities, local regulations, conventions, languagesā¦ and there are a lot of territories considered āof no meaningā for the Big tech. We will see a lot of other crazy things soon, I still canāt stop being shocked hearing what pops up from the mouth/mind of the boy wearing mascara 
. The president looks like a manipulated monkey, this cannot go well ā¦
But letās not blame only AI for all the wrong decisions, there are people behind them.
Automated property descriptions were not invented by Airbnb, this approach was successful for Booking who used it with years before. It was adding revenue in their pockets even if we donāt provide parking places. For instance at my property folks can park for free at 5 minutes walking distance. And guess what my property promote without my agreement under BDC? Free parking (eh?) What matters if our guests get mad? They pay the commission to platform, substract a star review from us and guess what? For our Genius offer supported by our wallet, BDC claim to the guest that was āpaid by BDCā. Not by host, which is the reality - but by BDC. Sooooo, we cry here, guests cry there, and platforms lie and roll our money.
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The guy who has been delivering propane cylinders to me for 17 years didnāt show up when I ordered propane, because the stupid girl who answers the phone for orders insisted on giving him my address, instead of telling him āSarahās house below Rancho El Aradoā like I told her to. I explained that he would not know my place by the address, and to also give him that description but she ignored that.
Airbnb also has the wrong postal code attached to my listing, but Iāve never bothered trying to get it corrected. Iām sure it would be a futile exercise in frustration.
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My house in the village of Platys on Lemnos island in Greeceā¦. No street names, no street lights and terraced up the hillside. The paths are donkey widthā¦
After a night at the Plakaā¦. I have joined the āWherethef**kareweā tribeā¦ā¦ very easy to take a wrong turning in the dark!
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Weāre the same in St Lucia. Rough and narrow roads without names or house numbers. Directions to our place are literally āfollow the main highway north from the airport for about 20 miles. Go straight at the Beach resort. Make the first right (itās shortly after passing the garbage bins), then make a left at the stone wall. We are the big white house about 1/2 mile further with our name on the post in front.ā
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Thereās a direction people use in my town- āturn right at the garbage wallā. Itās a stone wall in front of an undeveloped property that people have been piling their garbage bags on top of for at least 20 years.
And thereās a Mexico forum I follow from another area, where people are always giving directions to something in terms of what used to be there. āItās 3 doors past where the old XX restaurant was, across from where the car wash used to be.ā
Totally useless to anyone who hasnāt lived there for decades.
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Thatās a unit of measurement Iāve never came across before 
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We purposely put the location of the little market one mile away as our location. This market is where we insist on meeting guests. The road up here has a gate and gps is extremely unreliable. After the meet and greet they get the gate code and never before that. Although they do get the address in my after confirmation note, it really wonāt do them any good.
Maybe the op can change the location pin to where ever the private property begins.
Iām unclear where she found this Airbnb added AI information.
My friends in Baja sur La Paz Mexico had an address that was put on their home when it was built. None of the nearby addresses were anything like theirs, because addresses are doled out as houses are built there, so on a long road you could have 25, 65, 13, 89 etc all in a row.
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The house is stone and over 500 years old - they used donkeys instead of wheelbarrows to transport the roofing timber, terracotta tiles and stone. There are no cars in the village and you need to be able to carry your shopping home. Some American thought he had the bargain of the century when he bought basically a ruin half way up the terracing- absolutely fabulous views of the Mediterranean and couldnāt be built outā¦ā¦ but canāt find a builder because of the accessā¦ā¦watched this building gradually implode ā¦ā¦ very sad.
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Wow! Romania . Gorgeous country. 
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Indeedā¦ Iām so happy, @Dreamy, that you consider it beautiful ā¦ For those who never heard about it, take a look at this nice documentary duck://player/_QQpVI7qNr4
Iām afraid the next documentary about these places will be in Russian languageā¦
One set of my grandparents was from what was then Transylvania, but now part of Romania.
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@Muddy, thatās a big surprise! Long ago, my paternal grandfatherās large family was forced to leave Transylvania, crossing the mountains into Moldavia. There, they settled in the hills and founded several Catholic villages. I even found my rare family name in Jules Verneās The Castle of the Carpathians. Moldavia is an Orthodox province, so our nameās presence there only confirms its Transylvanian origin. We might even be relatives 
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My family is Jewish, and they came to US at the turn of the 19th/20th century. My brother knows more of the family history than I do.
Hereās something funny. My grandmother always thought and said she was Austrian. But it turned out she wasnāt Austrian at all- she came from a village in Transylvania that was right near the village my grandfather came from (they met in the US, though). She thought she was Austrian because her village was in the area that was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire at the time she was a child, and her school taught as if it was a school in Austria- teaching Austrian history, and all in German.
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Interestingly it is the with of a horse butt that has influenced the width of many railroads. Iām sure googling it would get you the full story. Itās pretty interesting (to me, as I am a horse person lol.)
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Curious how often you find guests showing up early and/or late and when you plan your arrival at the market to wait for them.
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I have opened text the previous day asking about their anticipated arrival time and giving them again the markets address. When I get that, but sometimes before we get that, they get a list of foods we provide.
Day of arrival I text them again, if necessary. Usually they send an update, and I find out their actual eta on their car gps, and ask them to text again when 20 minutes away. I almost never wait more than 5 minutes.
Yes there are sometimes delays and miscommunications, but this mo works for us. I would say Iāve gone down to meet someone a handful of times and come back without them out of 400+ meets.
Almost all my guests arrive by bus and I pick them up at the bus station, as my house is hard to find but only a 5-8 minute drive.
I get them to msg. me when they have boarded the bus at the airport, so I have a heads-up on arrival time, and then again when they arrive and I hop in the car and get them.
Aside from a few times when the guest couldnāt get their phone data, or their esim to work when they arrived in Mexico (and they then either finally figured it out, called their phone provider, asked to borrow someone elseās phone, etc.), this has always worked out perfectly.
Theyāve even been good about updating me if the bus is stuck on the highway due to an accident or road construction.
It seems that when guests are given instructions like gypsy and I use, and they know that they wonāt be able to get to the listing without communicating, itās different from them being able to arrive on their own, but disrespecting the hostās check-in window, as if the host has no life other than sitting at home all day waiting for guests to arrive.
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