First positives: the apartment is extremely well located, clean and about as nice looking as the pictures, though it lacks some regular comforts like a light you can turn on before getting out of bed. When the entry system and tv remotes didn't work at first, and I requested more hangers, Lyron (never communicated with "Gemma") was quick and helpful. But the foldout bed—already made—turned out to be insanely uncomfortable, not only because the mattress was literally like a rock, but a combination of deeply potholed and wavy with a huge trough in the middle. I actually attempted to sleep on it horizontally to avoid the trough, but couldn't fit. (I'll try to upload pix, which don't do it justice.) When I texted Lyron to complain, he protested this was the first time he'd heard this (not true, there's another published complaint I should have believed.) Another bizarre touch in the apartment was the poop stench occasionally emanating from the shower room. There's a complaint about this "sewer" smell in another of his airbnb listings, and I suspect that's from next door, via shoddy shared plumbing. Who knows?
He hurriedly offered to take our interaction out of airbnb so he could switch me to another, steeply discounted place (listed on airbnb, so not sure why we had to go off) and I—too quickly— agreed. The second place turned out to be another s-show for next door 3AM frat-party noise reasons. When I tried to communicate with him on that problem he stonewalled all day till I gave up, exhausted, and moved. When he finally called around 7pm, he insisted I move back in and lose my hotel payment! The upshot is that I've spent a third of my vacation moving into three different places.
Next time I'll avoid airbnbs where the host chooses to dismiss online critiques with haughty claims that the guest is inevitably at fault—red flag! Bottom line: if you can sleep comfortably on a pile of stiff rags or a topographical lunar map, this place is very nice, except for the fecal cloud occasionally blooming from the drainpipes!