FILTHY DISGUSTING apartment in a beautiful location and an arrogant host. Renting out an apartment in a nice location does not give you permission to let it be so unhygienic, dirty!
We are in the middle of a pandemic, We can agree that hygiene is more important now than ever before. I was under shock when I went into this place. I could not believe my eyes, there were bugs going around the kitchen.
The smell in the appartement is so horrible that it is hard to fall asleep. It smelled like mold and sweat. I had to spend 45 minutes cleaning the toilet, lavatory and bath so that I could actually use them. There was shit in the toilet, and short black shaved hair in the lavatory stuck to pieces of toothpaste. The bath was vying filthy.
The kitchen is impossible to use, everything is greasy and sticky, the fridge is disgusting, even the water boiler was sticky with fat and full of calc.
The mattress and pillow of the bed stink lead sweat and old cloth so badly. My entire head itches after sleeping on this terrible, dirty bed.
There is also so much dust everywhere in the apartment, it is hard to breath.
I am so sad, I came to Brussels for work, I needed to be concentrated and not to spend my time cleaning.
Also, the Apartement is in no way fit to welcome a guest, besides being disgustingly filthy, it is also used like a storage room filled with appliances everywhere. No space to put my own things. I had only 1 hanger I could use for my clothes.
I was in contact with the host at all times and also with his “friend” who was supposed to hand me the key. The friend never came, they left the key in the post box, available to anyone to take, without a code. They also told me they had no copy of the key!!! They proposed to come and clean a bit, but I had to leave my own key and things for them to come. I was busy all the time and unwilling to leave they in an unprotected place. So I did not let them come. I expect that the place is clean before I arrive.
The host suggested he reimburses me the cost of one night : 40 euros, telling me that the 2 nights that I would be is the equivalent of a “not ideal circumstance” of the youth hostel in the same neighborhood.
Circumstances aren’t ideal in a youth hostel because people share the space, not because it is filthy dirty. No one should endure what I endured during that stay.
It is hard to me to believe that this host is a “super host” on the Airbnb site. I also saw that some other clients mildly complaining about the same thing. But the hygiene in the apartment has not changed since then.
I DO NOT RECOMMEND this Apartement.
Thank you.