We had a nice stay at the apartment, and I think it has a lot of potential, but unfortunately based on my experience I can’t recommend it without a few improvements.
I’ll start by mentioning what I liked. It’s very well located in a posh section of the city, and close to great parks and restaurants. This is probably my favorite location in BA.
The apartment is spacious and beautiful. It is luxurious, like the photos, and has great amenities: a dishwasher, a washing machine, and elevator for the building, etc. This place truly has potential, and with a few improvements it could have easily been 5 star place.
The hosts were responsive, but as I mentioned there were a few issues that were never resolved during our stay.
We encountered some issues early on. The place was not quite clean — there was a lot of dust on the floor, especially under the beds. Honestly this is comparable to other places I have stayed at with Airbnb, but it could easily be improved by better cleaning. We ended up getting a few cleaning supplies and cleaning the place ourselves.
For this apartment, you need a key to get out of the building. We only got one key in the beginning, so when I had to leave I left my family trapped inside the building until I could return. Eventually we got a 2nd key the next day, but it was somewhat of an inconvenience that we didn’t get the 2 keys from the beginning.
We stayed for a week and the internet did not work until the last day. It seems this was an issue with the internet company. This was very inconvenient for us as we have 2 kids that could not use their iPads. I don’t think this is something that host could control, but it did affect the quality of the stay.
One of the two ACs in the apartment broke down after a few days. In the summer heat of BA, this made us very uncomfortable. One night my whole family slept in the one room with working AC, because the rest of the place was just too hot. This was never fixed.
The cold water valve in the main bathroom broke off during our stay, preventing us from getting cold water in that bathroom until they fixed it the next day. In the meantime we all just used the 2nd bathroom, but this didn’t have a bathtub so it was difficult to bathe my little kids this way.
Despite all these issues, I found the apartment very nice, with lots of great amenities. The issues I mentioned are all easily fixable, and I trust the host will address them for future stays.