The apartment is in a great location with easy access to shops, cafes, and restaurants. There’s a great grocery store just on the corner. It’s as pictured and has a large terrace. All in all the apartment itself is quite nice, but the rest of the experience was not great.
We were provided no check in instructions whatsoever. The day before we wrote to ask, and then again the day of and when we arrived. We contacted on airBNB, called, texted. Nothing. After hours of no response and contacts with customer support, nearly cancelling the reservation, standing outside the property with all our bags we finally heard back 15 minutes before our check in. After a long international flight it was really stressful.
When we got in the apartment was freezing - none of the heat had been turned on prior to our arrival and it took ages for the apartment to warm up.
Beyond plates and cutlery, the kitchen had absolutely nothing in it. Not even basics like oil / vinegar or even salt and pepper. There wasn’t even a pan to cook in! We bought groceries and couldn’t even cook them.
Door knobs on doors kept falling off. There was one nearly empty thing of hand soap in the entire apartment. We had to contact Marie to send over basic things like hand soap, paper towels, toilet paper. Washing machine but no detergent to use.
The worst part was a few days into our stay, the apartment started to smell really funky. Almost like a sewage smell or foul odor? We had to open the living room doors daily to air it out which helped for a few hours but it would just come back.
All in all, the apartment is nice. But it’s very bare bones like someone just furnished it and that’s about it. When I’m paying over $500 / night, I expect to have a pan to cook in.