Pros: The bathroom is nice. The apartment is aesthetically pleasing, sort of like walking through an Ikea showroom. The area is very nice. The kitchen has a very large fridge and a dishwasher, as well as the only good table (with felt chairs, so… don’t spill anything, I guess). There’s a combination washer/dryer inside the apartment itself, which is very convenient. We found an entire box of beers and take-home Covid tests in a cupboard, which was… neat? The windows come with armored shutters, so that you can’t be robbed. Hurray.
Cons: The apartment is not actually designed for practical human habitation.
Devices: There are only two open plugs in the walls – for anything else, you have to unplug a lamp. There are no power strips. There is no convenient place to charge your devices. There is no desk for a laptop, nor a place to charge that laptop – the note saying this place has a dedicated workspace is an outright lie. There is no internet; the laughable cellular internet router in the apartment puts out a Wi-Fi signal so weak that it struggles to load web pages.
Light: There is plentiful artificial light in each room, at least until you start unplugging lamps so you can charge your phone. For natural light, the building is buried at the first floor between two six-story buildings. The place is super, mega gloomy, and you do not have a view (unless you like watching random passers-by, who are also watching you back).
Space: There is a beautiful, spacious, utterly useless living room. It takes up about 40% of the apartment, but lacks a television, dining table, coffee table, desk, or any other object that would allow you to use the space for anything at all. It’s got an uncomfortable couch and a tiny end table you can put drinks on. So, I guess if you want to get drunk with your friends, you can do it there… except you can’t bring people into an Airbnb who aren’t staying there, so, it’s just you getting drunk with your significant other. We used it for storage.
Other Stupid Stuff: The rug in the bedroom makes it impossible to close the door, which isn’t a huge problem (remove the rug) but strikes me as sure evidence that the decorator of this apartment wasn’t really thinking about how human beings actually interact with their living spaces. The pillows are deeply uncomfortable, but that can differ by the person. The blankets are too small, but that definitely differs by the person. The shower only has a soap dish, and no other spaces to put anything you might use in the shower. There are mysterious (and very loud) squeaking noises that come from the roof and walls, which we thought might have been caused by other people but continued even after 5am with no discernable pattern; they might have been caused by the building itself, we really have no idea.
In Conclusion: It’s a cheap apartment in Vienna, you get what you pay for. Though, this apartment is really only suitable if you don’t intend to spend any time in it, in which case you might as well get a hotel room. We stayed here for a day of the three weeks we’d paid for, then switched to a different apartment.