Overall the Airbnb was just okay, mid at best.
Pros: close to metro, lots of nearby commerces for day to day. Very clean and tidy. You’ll have the products needed to cook and clean.
Cons:
- The area is really loud when school comes back. Every morning kids would yell and shout by 8am and that’s not ideal for those who are looking to sleep in during their vacation time/ also not great for work from home because you can basically hear everything outside. Wouldn’t advertise that as a good spot to work. The floors were creaky and would be able to hear everything your neighbours do, and vice versa. The windows have no net, and when you leave it open for fresh air, you hear everything on the streets.
- the sofa bed is definitely not the most comfortable and the 3rd/4th person might not have a great time.
- The most negative part was the check-in: absolutely a waste of our time - this is by far the worst check in experience I’ve encountered so far: I thought Maria, the middle person helping the Airbnb operations, was rude/unremorseful and would also be lying about the arrival time when clearly they were going to be late.
Her answers were that life happens and traffic happens - I do think some of it can be merited- 15 min is acceptable but not 65-80min. That’s not really an acceptable answer when a customer has confirmed the time of arrival and that the people serving us telling us that life happens. That chews up our vacation time, especially after a long flight. I would hope that professionalism equates to punctuality - especially in hospitality industries.
With that kind of check-in situation, it did tarnish the experience living in this Airbnb, and in retrospect would have probably gone with a hotel, this place isn’t cheap enough to be only okay, mid at best.