This place had no reviews, and that should have been the first red flag. In the check in instructions, Samuel said, and I quote: "Due to bad experience, if the apartment looks really bad when you leave, you will be charged 50$ extra. We don’t ask you to clean the place but to leave it looking ok, no beer on the walls or broken glasses, etc." Clearly, something very bad happened to this apartment just before I arrived. The first part was the horrendous odor. It smelled like cigarettes and cleaning agent. The floors were disgustingly sticky and slimy. I walked around on a towel because I didn't want whatever it was on my skin. To cap it all, there was no toilet paper.
The host, Samuel, sounded like a robot. He never responded to any of my messages, whether it was about getting through the fault door lock, or the lack of TP. He just gave me the next cookie-cutter text.
It's been a few days later and my clothes still smell like the place. This place had no business being on AirBnB.