This place was just ok. We arrived to minimal instructions on how to get to the apartment, only that parking was in the back alley. We had to carry our bags back down the alley, back up the street, and then to the apartment. However, after finding the key, we walked upstairs to two unmarked doors. After attempting to open one, the second one we tried worked. The minimal instructions were frustrating.
The next disappointment was walking into an unclean place. There was hair everywhere - we are pretty sure it was dog hair. There was hair all over the floor, the couch, and the bedding. Every bed sheet had dog (or human?) hair all over it, even the extra bedding we found. After reaching out to the host about the uncleanliness, we were told that she would alert the cleaning crew and if we could clean in the meantime.
We have not been refunded the cleaning fee yet for doing the work the apparent cleaning crew did not do, and we did not hear from the host again. We found a lint roller and used the entire thing to get all the dog hair off the sheets on the bed so we could at least go to sleep. We never used the couch because we ran out of lint roller sheets and did not want to sit on a hair-covered couch.
One of the more alarming things we noticed was that the photos of the place do not represent what is actually there. The photos show a welcoming apartment, but we found a sparsely furnished apartment with no art, rugs, console table, or towel hooks.
There was no place to hang our towels after using them, and there were only medium-sized towels. The kitchen had a hand towel, but no paper towels or garbage bag in the garbage.
Another very concerning thing we noticed was one of the windows was cracked and the windows facing the street were not able to be closed. Unfortunately, scaffolding in front of the window was put up starting at 7 AM one of the mornings we were there, and we did not feel safe there knowing the windows were not secure and anyone could climb the scaffolding to the window.
We found the price of this apartment was far too much than what we received. My husband and I rented this place for our first wedding anniversary, and while we did not expect anything, we did mention it to the host in the booking message and thought maybe a note or small celebratory thing would have been nice. Instead, we felt very unwelcome and uncomfortable in a dirty place.
Unfortunately, this experience has made us quite certain that AirBnBs have become too expensive for what you get, and any place can get listed without thorough checking. We will not book AirBnbs for a while after this stay.