We had several problems with this apartment. The location, while bustling during the day, is in the business district and becomes quite sketchy at night when the offices close. The apartment itself is very small, as the listing explains. What the listing doesn’t say is that there is no comfortable place to lounge after a long day of visiting BsAs. The couch is uncomfortable, and the bed gets put away under the kitchen floor. The bed itself is also uncomfortable: it is essentially a foam mattress on a piece of wood on wheels; it is very low and feels a lot like sleeping on an air mattress in the floor.
Unfortunately, we also had some maintenance issues during our stay; the shower would only run for about 10 seconds before slowing to a drizzle. We reported this to Josefina, but she dawdled for a couple of days. That took us into the New Year’s holiday, when nobody could look at it. After the holiday, she expected us to give up our plans for the day to meet the maintenance man and let him into the apartment. We felt that four days with an non-functioning shower was too long, and we had already moved to another AirBnB. We were not reimbursed for any part of the $300 that we lost by not staying there for the last 6 days of our booking.
Josefina has written several times that she is proud of her good service, but she is a long-distance host, and her hospitality seems to have slipped. I have stayed in over 50 Airbnb’s on three continents and have never had an experience like this one. There are many great Airbnb’s in lovely neighborhoods for a good price in Buenos Aires. This is not one.