This place has SO much potential but desperately needs attention from its owners/management.
﻿Let’s start with the good…the location is great. Close to the Eiffel Tower and lots of restaurants and cafes. Heater works great.
Now the bad….the apartment doesn’t look like the pictures. The pictures are deceiving. The furniture is old, heavily heavily worn and just plain filthy. A suggestion…Don’t use light colored furniture in a heavily trafficked AirBnB unless you properly clean and maintain it.
The bathroom is dirty and falling apart. Towel rack is literally dangling off the wall. Broken tiles everywhere. Corners are dirty, pealing and moldy. The listing indicated “enhanced clean” but I find it hard to believe it meets that standard. No bathrobe provided as picture and description indicate. The towels are tattered and torn. I was provided with two more than half empty toilet paper rolls for a 7 night stay and a completely empty bottle of soap. Hot water last for six minute shower… Not enough for two people let alone the for a claims to be able to host be prepared to take an ice cold shower
The bedroom has a bed that is relatively comfortable but there is a huge nasty stain on the comforter!!! The room itself is unusable and illogically designed/furnished. There is a desk(?) that requires an archaic key to open one of only two drawers (they don’t stay open so you need the key every time you need to open it). Directly in front and completely in the way and ability to use said desk/dresser is an oddly placed chair (more like a misshaped bean bag that falls if you sit on it), covered with a duvet cover that was also old and filthy and two oddly placed end tables that serve no purpose but to clutter the room where you can barely walk around . There was only two of us however the bed is a queen size only big enough for two people deep sofa was not a pull out sofa so I have no idea where the listing thinks he can host up to four people. You would be pushing it at three
The kitchen was ok but there are no curtains and there are about 18 windows that can see in. (Very close proximity) Don’t expect any privacy when you walk out of the bathroom/shower or in/out of the bedroom.
The host was rather annoyed that we were late. Not my fault we were delayed 5.5 hours out of Miami but I emailed twice advising of my changed arrival time to keep her updated. When I advised we arrived and were in Uber (about a 30 minute drive) she wanted us to wait +1.5 hours in the <40 degree weather after a 15 hour trip?! This is unacceptable for an AirBnB!! There are two key codes to get in that could have easily been provided prior to arrival. Then a lock box could be easily installed outside the door so there’s NO reason in this day and age to have a host required to meet you upon arrival. The key….very difficult to lock and unlock. Even the host when trying to show me tried for almost 5 minutes. She was either embarrassed or annoyed but after about 40 tries of in, out, back in, turn upside down, twist, pull, she annoyingly handed me the key and said “Here. That’s how you do it”…as if it was easy when she couldn’t even do it.
I understand this is someone’s home but if you rent it out to guests as an AirBnB , you have to make it conducive to guests!! Some suggestions… 1) CLEAN or replace the furniture. Almost every piece was truly disgusting especially considering the pandemic we’re in 2) get new linens/towels. The current ones are filthy and tattered. 3) provide a useable/functional dresser as you are HOSTING guests and lost that chair. You cant even sit on it without it collapsing 4) Provide power strips. Almost every outlet is used for an unnecessary light (European wall outlets only have one plug, not two like US) so if you have any devices, you have to charge them scattered around or one at a time. 4) Pretty it up. Hang a picture. The walls are bare and its uninviting.