There were rotting cigarettes outside in a rusty jam tin.
There was also a full ashtray with dirty cigarette in it inside behind the microwave and that was was truly awful.
It made the place really smell so disgusting. The smell had gone through the bedding and especially the towels. I gagged when I tried to dry my hair.
If it weren’t for the dirty ashtray everything else was ok for the price.
I gave the host feedback about the ashtray but he defended it with hostility and said things like “You are rude. I hope you never come back”.
It was not indicated on the listing that guests could be smoking inside though the host said that smoking was allowed. We would not have chosen to stay in a smoking apartment.
The host defended that it’s a vintage apartment, but to me vintage does not mean ashtray full of cigarettes.
There were other marginal annoyances, as the place was an apartment but presented to seem like a cottage, and the furnitures were kerbside quality ie stuffing coming out of the chairs, advertised ‘Ancient Earth’ shampoo and conditioner which were just minis (not enough for three people for two nights) and the ‘private courtyard with chairs’ was hat one chair to sit, two chairs entangled to block up a hole in the fence, and the ground decorated with broken hoses and plastic rubbish and ceiling fan full of cobwebs that dripped into the food. We didn’t care about those things so much, but the dirty ashtray and the host’s response to it were disappointing.