The apartment is in a perfect location - right in the centre of Toronto where all the activities buzz. Hard to have a better location.
The apartment itself was modern and bright but very compact and small with hardly any space for two suitcases.
We were faced with a number of serious issues on the cleanliness and privacy sides. The apartment was not well cleaned, more particularly the microwave and the oven had fresh food remains from the previous guest. Being vegetarians, we could not use the microwave and the oven as the remains might have contained non veg stuff. The host was co-operative and cleaned them during the next day.
But more seriously for us, the place felt as if it was a shared apartment: personal effects of the host were in the cupboard and bathroom, and all the drawers and other cupboards had stuff in them- either leftover food from the previous guests or the hosts items. All the towels (bathroom and kitchen) were in a state of severe overuse and in dire need of replacement. The kitchen sink had a soap that had been considerably used, and the cleaning sponge in that sink and kitchen cloths were also heavily used - something we felt so unhygienic that we put them away in a plastic bag until our departure. Instead of the supplied cloths we used kitchen paper rolls. The fridge was almost full of leftovers (eggs, milk, water, juice, whisky, butter etc..) and we were extremely uncomfortable with all these leftovers.
All bathroom toiletries (soap, shampoo, conditioner etc..) were remains and in extremely limited quantities (maybe in 5 or 6 different tubes, each one about 10-15% full) - so they must have been used by several other guests. There was only one roll of toilet paper and another used roll with only a few sheets of paper left. The host brought additional one the next day on our request. We requested the host to change the bed sheets and pillow cases as we found potato chip crumbs on them .. and believe they had not been changed -- but to no avail. We had to turn them upside down before use.
Well, maybe the problem lies with us, as other guests may find all these perfectly OK. But for me and my wife, we did not like all this at all.
When we booked, we thought we would have a place with privacy of our own, and certainly not stuffs of the owner in the apartment nor any used soap or toilet paper or even leftover food.
Since we are quite new to AIrbnb, we might have been mistaken.