The short version:
If this is a special trip for you, stay somewhere else. If you need a place for a day or two that’s fine/nothing special and some unpleasant bathroom smells don’t bother you, it’s fine.
The long version:
Entry is confusing and the instructions are also confusing. There’s a picture to guide you, but it’s dark so it’s not super helpful and you can’t zoom in on it. It says it’s the black lock and there are two of those in the same place. For help, it’s the larger of the two.
The bathroom smelled like sewage, it seemed like it was the shower drain.
For the shower there was oddly only conditioner, so maybe it was left by another guest?
There was a clump of dust on my pillow when we arrived.
If you zoom in closely on the Airbnb pics, you’ll notice that there are small signs in all caps around the apartment, notably (copy pasted from the pictures I took):
- “! CAUTION WHEN COOKING ! SMOKE CAN CAUSE THE FIREALARM TO GO OFF THE ALARM IS CONNECTED TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IF THEY COME YOU WOULD HAVE TO BEAR THE COSTS”
- “! CAUTION! SELF-LOCKING DOOR |DO NOT FORGET THE KEY ! IN CASE YOU LOCK YOURSELF OUT A LOCKSMITH WILL BE CALLED AT YOUR COST”
A note about the signs I specified above (some others were helpful, like instructions for the door or the light switch labels)— those mentioned above are your problem as a host that you need to fix or deal with, not your “guests”… you’re passing problems on to your guests.
The host sends messages that say “let us know if you need anything”, but this feels a bit disingenuous when you feel like you’re navigating a sea of all caps signs.
The checkout time is 10AM, which is clear in the listing— and still it is unusually early. While the checkout is early, the checkin is the standard hotel checkin time of 15/3pm. They send you a message to make sure you don’t forget to get out lawl.
To the owner and/or property manager: I leave honest reviews when I leave them and usually people reached out to tell me I should have messaged them instead because I’m affecting their business— a waste of time when the thing that will improve and sustain your business is addressing the issues, not unnecessarily bothering me. With that said, please don’t bother me with 1:1 messages about my review. It’s an honest review. If you want to improve the apartment and pay for me to come back and update my review, I’d be glad to. The apartment is fine— it could be nice, some things just need to be changed.