Positives: When you enter you see the lovely "public" spaces, sitting rooms, dining room, office. They are bright and airy. The apartment is well located in the city, and it is easy to walk to many things. We visited in summer and appreciated that the apartment is air conditioned and has an elevator.

Negatives: The bedrooms and bathrooms are not so nice. When we first arrived, the sheets on the bed had blood stains. Several light fixtures are missing (with bare wires hanging from ceilings), several bulbs were out, most fixtures did not have globes, etc. This really gave the place a very dingy, rundown feel. All the drawers in the dressers stick and are difficult to open and close.

It took almost a week to get second set of keys, which are necessary to both get in and out of the building and the apartment. Unless everyone in our party stayed together, someone always ended up spending time in he cafe across the street until the person with keys returned. If you stay there by yourself, leaving without taking a set of keys with you can be problematic.

The WiFi is fine when it works, but it frequently dropped out and the router needed to be rebooted.

The kitchen was useable, but dark (partly due to one of those missing light fixtures) and sketchy (my favorite, the lid of teapot is in two pieces held together with tape, representative of the shoddy condition of many things). It is not a room where you would want to sit and eat breakfast, or any meal for that matter.

This is not the first time we have used airbnb, but, unlike our other airbnb stays, we frequently found ourselves wishing we had stayed in a hotel, or had selected a different airbnb. James was out of the country during our visit; perhaps if he had someone responsible to handle problems in his absence, this would not have been such an unpleasant experience.