This is a lovely apartment in the heart of the cbd. A few things to be aware of as a guest. Firstly, the check in experience is a bit odd. I received an sms from someone I’d never heard of asking about my check in information (I hadn’t authorised the host to share my contact information, and I’d already sent my check in information to my host via Airbnb). When arranging a check in time with this other party, they arrived 20 minutes after our agreed time, leaving me standing on the street with my luggage after driving 4 hours. The house was immaculately clean, and is simplistically but beautiful styled. It is smaller than the photos suggest, as other guests state. But it was the perfect size. As other guests mention, there would often be rubbish flying down from upstairs apartments - happily my host provided a brush and shovel on the balcony so I could clean this each day. A big drawback was the unmanageable amount of noise in the apartment. Part of this is from the metro tunnel project directly on the street downstairs, part was works that were clearly inside the building, sending inescapable noise through the apartment which made it impossible to work (I have to WFH/remotely) and I had to leave. While I appreciate the quick response from the host to approach the building manager about the noise, I also felt uncomfortable doing so after being interrogated by the building manager as to who I was, what I was doing here, which apartment I was staying in and if I was an Airbnb guest.
I also do not appreciate hosts messaging me after my stay asking me to leave them 5 star reviews - this goes against the spirit of Airbnb and the review system.
So I’m summary, it’s a lovely apartment. But there are a few quirks in the Airbnb experience. And there are some issues with noise you should be aware of if you’re noise sensitive or need to work from the space.