The location is nice. It is close to restaurants, bistros, delis and grocery stores. The apartment itself is fairly large but in much need of care and upgrading. There is not much in the way of furniture and nothing in the bedrooms to put your things on. There are no mirrors with the exception of a small mirror tile on the bathroom door. All the towel racks in the bathroom are missing and the bathroom is extremely small. Fixtures are very old. No toilet paper or kleenex is provided. We had to wash and dry the towels provided as they were put away wet and smelled bad.
On our 4th day the power went out and we were without power or hot water for over 18 hours. We were only able to deal with the host over text despite numerous requests for him to call us. At approximately midnight he said he wanted us to leave but we refused as it was too dark to pack our belongings and we had no where to go. We are 2 ladies in our 60s and this was very upsetting. I contacted the hydro company to see what the problem was. They advised us that the suite was showing as vacant and that the owner would need to arrange for power to be restored. I contacted Airbnb for assistance due to the hosts unwillingness to communicate. Originally the host stated that he would refund 2 of our remaining 3 nights then later said he was only going to refund if the power had not come back on. We received a refund for 50% of one day! We had purchased groceries and items from a gourmet deli and had to throw out over $100.00 worth of food because it had spoiled. Once we checked out the owner sent us a bill stating we had burnt the cover on his dryer. I don't know how that could even have been possible and believe he is just angry that we contacted Airbnb.
The whole issue was very upsetting and I truly believe that if the host had just called and talked to us and apologized for the power issue we could have come to a mutually agreeable solution.