As a digital nomad for the past 4 years I have been traveling all around the world and stayed in A LOT of Airbnbs. This 6 week stay was one of my worst experiences! I cannot recommend it unless they do some updates (which I see may have been done now in a different listing for the same palce https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/4739751?guests=1&adults=1&s=67&unique_share_id=b72c9fb6-a897-4609-9bbb-d2650961183b) and hire a professional management company.
The place itself is not bad, the location is great and the neighbors are nice.
BUT it needs professional management and the loud contruction infront AND behind the building (7.30am start) need to be disclosed in the listing. It was impossible to use the balcony during day time hours due to the construction and the place was also not recently renovated as the title said. For example, both the kitchen bathroom cabinets had water damage, the stove is old and the tiles needed to be cleaned or regrouted. The (broken) dining room chairs and couch were uncomfortable and the mattress old, worn and dirty. The bed support was actually smaller than the matress and we kept sliding off on the sides because the sides were just overhanging the bed spring. The bedroom window is not airthight and you can feel a breeze while in bed. The owner knew about the broken bedroom blinds, but instead of fixing it just told us to be careful. Of course, it got stuck many times and was a pain to fix it ourselves.
The bedding was low quality and stained, so I brought my own. The comforter was also only twin size (one for summer one for winter) on a full-size bed. That did not work for my husband and me! I put the extra bedding on the top shelves of the closet and almost 2 weeks after check-out got surprised by a 600 USD damage request for missing cheap IKEA bedding! They obvisouly did not check the upper closet space, nor asked me where it could be. They also tried to ping me for some missing silver ware (which I certainly did not take or lose), but if the hosts are that nitpicky they need to do an inventory count, during check-in and check-out with the guest present.
The host must have forgotten the day I was checking out, as she was out of town and told me to leave the keys in a mailbox.
Furthermore, the electric water kettle is from another country and does not fit the outlet so it's useless unless you buy an adaptor. The pool is very small and only knee deep. It looked way bigger in the original pics.
The owners live too far away and used that as an excuse for almost anything that went worng. I was expected to be home for all technician visits for the many service requests this place had. I was also asked to go and make a copy of the only available key myself, call the service line for the internet issue and use the 2 seat cusions from the balcony chairs for the 4 damaged dining room chairs. Eventually, most things got taken care of but it was not easy or comfortable to ask for basic items and we felt talked down to.
We, therefore, even fixed a hot water heater pressure issue ourselves in the middle of the night after several hours on youtube learning about it. We knew because of a long weekend we would otherwise have been without hot water for 3 days. We did not even receive a thank you from the host for the technical work my husband did for free!
The place had a gas leak when we first moved in and it took 3 days to fix it. We did not spend the nights there while it was reaking of gas. I should have canceled the stay or asked for a refund for those nights but I was in the middle of our wedding preparations, and because the original place I had wanted to stay at, fell through last minute, I knew this was the only available in the area for my time period. I learned my lesson to not book places unseen and without reviews. The lack of professionalism of this host give a bad rep to the Airbnb platform as a whole. I wish they were not allowed to host anymore.