Hard to know where to begin…
As soon as you step into this building the sewer smell is present and as you go into the lift the smell become stronger and overpowering. At the apartment is not as bad as everywhere else in the building.
This is a self manage apartment, the person that cleans, seems to be the only person who visit the apartment in between guests, so the host is not aware of what works or what does not.
The host has put a minor effort to spruce the place up but as is, there is so much more that this apartment needs, the apartment looks much better in pictures than it does in real life.
Upon my arrival to drop off my bags around 11h, the apartment was dirty and a mess from the previous guest. At that moment I noticed that one of the three large windows was missing a blind, it was the window directly next to the bed. I contacted the host and there was not answer for over 45 mins and when there was one it was just to confirm that there was not blind there and there was not intention of fixing it, since according to the host the apartment has not had one for over 3 months and everyone has been okay with that.
Also he thought my request was frivolous one since I had not inquired about the window having blinds prior my arrival. I still don’t understand that statement since I wouldn’t inquire whether there is a door because I assume there is one, so why would I inquire about window blinds.
During my first night at this apartment I realise that besides the window blind which at this point I was going to just deal with it, there were more things that were broken in this apartment. This badly lit apartment has the one lamp next to the sofa when I went to turn it on, it was inoperative and missing the plug completely. The fridge drawer was also broken, when it was time to go to bed I discovered that the wooden slats were broken as well.
The bedding left for me was definitely not clean and I have seen how the bed was left by the previous guest when I arrived to the apartment in the morning to I dropped off my bags and it was left just like that for me. There is a washer in the apartment which it was left running all day and night by the housekeeper. The shower head didn’t work and only the wand was available for use in the shower, the sink and toilet was left with residues from previous guest. The heater was something I never got it to work, i would turn the knob to 5-6 and nothing would happen. As I am discovering these things I am chatting in real time with Airbnb about all of it during my first night… oh yeah and the night was not really a night for me since the street light gave me enough light to keep me awake.
When host was contacted by Airbnb about these issues, he was dismissive and blame all this issues on me being difficult, the host was unprofessional to say the least. I limit my interaction with this host because when I contacted him twice before he would send me messages back to back without letting me reply to his first message, I did not feel safe staying in an apartment of a person like that so I left this apartment and even when I left his apartment he kept sending messages back to back, some of the messages were about my use of towels, the use of espresso pods and about toilet paper. Totally unreal! Terrible experience!