Pros: apartment is clean and spacious; kitchen is very functional if you want to cook on your own; nice neighborhood with a lot of good restaurants; metro, grocery stores and pharmacy are all within walkable distance; host is quite fast in replying questions.
Cons: there’s a temperature monitor that cuts off heating supply when temperature gets higher than a preset threshold; we were advised to always keep heaters at 21 degree to avoid them being switched off when it is not desired, however even when we set it to 19.5 degree it can trigger the monitor as well; i understand that the host tried to moderate the electrical consumption through this, but as guests we had no intention to abuse the electricity usage at all, but rather, just to keep ourselves warm. And when the automatic switch turns off, there is no hot water. That happened to us in the middle of shower and was not very pleasant.
there’s also a detector that monitors the number of devices in the flat from time to time. host used it as evidence to question whether our declared number of guest (2) was accurate, given that we brought and he detected 7 devices. We think it infringed our privacy as it would reflect when we are in the flat and when not. Also, we are not sure if there are other monitoring system in the flat which we are not aware of, making us rather uncomfortable.
Overall, quite nice and comfortable apartment at a decent rate, but make sure you communicate well in advance with the host and are aware of / okay with all the above-mentioned “cons”.