Good points; Location, size, cleanliness
Bad points; Was contacted several times outside Airbnb with ‘offer’ whereby I would cancel on the day of arrival and pay in cash – the host’s offer was that he would split his Airbnb fee with me. Apparently he was close to going over the number of days he could rent out his main residence according to Brussels regulations. I find this kind of thing an annoyance and declined the offer.
The ‘full kitchen’ isn’t very full. There’s a notice saying that the kitchen is only for preparation of light meals, ‘like sandwiches’. They mean it too – the pans there were unsuitable for cooking even a basic meal for nine. There were also only nine mugs – one of which had a crack in it.
Like other reviewers, we had a text just prior to arrival warning that if we were noisy, the neighbours would call the police.
The apartment is covered in sticker messages telling you to do things, for instance, this one in the bathroom - ‘clean the sink after use with the sponge provided’. First, part of the cost of the apartment is for cleaning. Second, there was no sponge anywhere near the sink anyway. It’s just tedious to have these rules plastered all over the place.
Finally, and booker beware, this host charges a tourist tax of 4.24 euros per guest, per night. He says he’ll collect this on your arrival. He wasn’t at the flat when we arrived, so he didn’t collect ours then. There is a note saying that they run an honour* system for uncollected tourist tax whereby you leave it on the table when you depart. However, during our stay, it came to light that Brussels tourist tax is charged PER ROOM, not per guest. This information is easily found in about five minutes searching the internet.
Would we return? No.
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