I’ll start off with the pros of this apartment, and then move to my concerns.
Pros:
*the host was very friendly and let us drop our bags off early
*the apartment is directly in front of the metro, making it very easy to jump on a train and get to the central city
*host provided some laundry soap and body wash which was nice
Cons:
The biggest issue being that the entire place was rather unclean. The pillows and the bedding was not washed. 2 of the pillows looked like they had blood stains on them. One of the extra pillows had yellow sweat stains. I’m not talking about under the pillow case. The actual pillow case was unwashed and had yellow sweat stains and what looked like blood residue from a bloody nose. The couch was unclean. Again, the pillow cases had never been washed and had gross stains all over them. It was hard feeling like we didn’t have a clean place to be or to sit. The couch did have a blanket thrown over it, but it didn’t cover the stains that were in all of the pillows and arm rests. Even the blanket didn’t feel like it was washed before the last guests left.
Something to note if you are considering staying here with small children: We were traveling with our family (2 adults, 3 children ranging in ages from 4-10 years old.) this didn’t effect the rating of the unit as we know this is typical of European apartments, it’s just something to note if you are traveling with small children, but the apartment is on the 5th floor, and the windows open up directly to the street. This was very nerve racking for us with our 4 year old who kept wanting to open the windows to see out. There is no way to child lock them from the inside.
Upon entering, there were only 2 bath towels. We messaged the host about where to find more since we were a family of 5. The host kindly dropped 3 more off for us, but it was strange not to have enough towels or any extra linens given the price of this Airbnb.
The chairs in the kitchen were broken, the legs bending so that it felt like they were going to collapse under our weight.
The location, while close to the metro was slightly seedy, and didn’t feel like a great place to walk around like it was advertised. There was a grocery store a couple of shops down, which was great for grabbing some yogurt for breakfast, but other than that, the location was mediocre at best.
All in all, we paid one thousand five hundred euro to stay here for 4nights (off peak season) and it was absolutely over priced and not worth it due to the cleanliness and mediocre location.
. I do feel bad leaving this review, considering the hosts were kind, but I do think that they need to really change out the pillow cases and take extra care in the cleanliness of the linens. I also feel like the price needs to be adjusted based on the location.