I’ve never written a negative review before but this will be an exception. This was far and away the worst Airbnb experience I’ve ever had. We booked a 5 week stay hoping to have a comfortable place to land while looking for a new apartment. We arrived to a place that was much darker and smaller than advertised, right by the garbage for the whole building, which has an automatic motion sensing light that goes on at 3am every night and then all night long when people take out their trash (which you can smell from the apartment). The apartment was missing basic necessities like soap and knives for cooking. The shower and sink were clogged. We were there in the summer and there was no fan or AC making the apartment 100F/30+C all night. When we left the windows open to try to get relief the apartment flooded with flies from the building’s trash.
We found another place to stay after 2.5 weeks and just paid double rent to get out of the space.
Most importantly, when it came time to leave, Samira made me do a walk through the apartment and shamed me for my cleaning abilities. I swept, did the dishes, cleaned the sink and wiped the counters before she arrived and she made me take out the trash in front of her and said I was the dirtiest guest she’d ever had. She inspected the inside of the fridge and said I “must not know how to clean.” She essentially shamed me out the door.
As an aside - when we arrived after 20 hours of flying they didn’t have a key for us and we sat outside in the rain with our bags for 30 minutes. I was ready to let this and everything else slide and write a nice review because I don’t want to hurt their business, but the shaming was the last straw.
I would not recommend subjecting yourself to this experience. There are other places to stay in the area.