I stayed here for two months, and while the apartment was livable, it was at my borderline of what I can handle living in and so I can’t in good conscience recommend this place.
Pros: Victoria is a responsive host who took care of things quickly. She bought a kettle for us, and was generally pleasant to deal with. The apartment is spacious and well lit, and the living room has air conditioning and Netflix.
Cons: A day after booking the airbnb, Victoria messaged us to tell us that the previous tenant had done some damage to the floors and walls. I was a pretty irritated as we’d been in contact before I booked the place and she hadn’t disclosed this, so it felt very disingenuous of her. When we arrived, the floors and walls were indeed damaged, but that didn’t really bother me too much. What DID bother me, which was not disclosed, was the rampant cockroach infestation. The kitchen was completely unusable, as there were multiple cockroaches crawling about at any given time. It was like playing whack-a-mole, kill five and ten more appear! Food couldn’t be left on the counter, they tried to crawl into the microwave with the food, even the fridge wasn’t safe. The dining room table was also infested with tiny ants that would crawl on your plate while eating, and the bathroom similarly had an ant problem. The bathroom also had a mold problem, and several towels were sacrificed to the mold before we figured out what was happening.
Additionally, and this is not Victoria’s fault, but it certainly didn’t make it easy to live there, was the bar cross the street that playing loud music until 6 or 7am. If you’re in the bedroom closest to it, it can be very hard to sleep. Also, the place was just… dirty when we arrived. I don’t think the cleaning lady Victoria hired did a very good job. No one had swept under the bathroom sink cabinet, and there were empty bottles of shampoo and dust. We washed and vacuumed the floors when we arrived because they didn’t look or feel clean. She’d bought new towels for us when we arrived, but they didn’t smell like they’d been washed, and there was a whole drawer of dirty towels in one of the rooms that the cleaning lady just left there. The dishes in the kitchen were also mostly dirty, even though some of them were supposedly new, and all had to be washed thoroughly before using.
Based on the contact I’ve had with Victoria, I genuinely don’t believe she understands just how bad the apartment has become in her time away. I know the previous tenant did some damage, but I think her cleaning person cuts corners, and I don’t think she grasps how bad the apartment got. I know she has plans to improve things, and I hope she’s successful. Until she does though, I strongly recommend avoiding this place due to the bug problems.