We’re not obsessed about cleaning, but we really had bigger expectations about cleanliness since the cleaning fee alone was 50€ and it listed, I quote, “Stephan committed to Airbnb’s enhanced cleaning protocol—a rigorous set of cleaning standards developed by Airbnb with leading health and hospitality experts for the times of COVID-19 and beyond.”
It felt like somebody really messy stayed there before us and they had no time to clean it up.
The first room floor was terribly dirty and greasy. Kitchen sink was clogged and the little table where we were supposed to take breakfast or something was greasy.
The dish sponge was surely used before and I really really hope it was only used for washing dishes.
In the bathroom next to the toilet there were some 10cm yellowish splashes on the wall which I tried to ignore for the whole stay.
Fortunately the bed sheets were smelling really good like they were just washed and the place was really pretty so we decided to ignore the other details and quickly cleaned for ourselves the sinks, the toilet seat, the shower and the faucets who looked like not being cleaned in a while and we degresed the table and rigurously washed the dishes we were going to use since they looked more just like they were a quickly rinsed.
Too bad they did not have a mop in the place - we would have liked to mop the floor as well; so much that we considered the idea to buy one ourselves, but we abandoned the idea. Also, we choosed not to complain about it because it took less for us to solve the problem ourselves than to wait for somebody to come. Plus it would have been unconfortable to have somebody cleaning while we were there.
Another minus was smells. The first room smelled of sigarette smoke and there was little we could do about it because the first room has no windows or other way to air the room then opening the front door (that goes right to the street). If there would have been a way to secure the white bars in the front we would have kept the front door open the whole time but the white bars were broken or something since they were locked in place with some duct tape, and we were only able to air the first room by staying literally with the front door open like we were a shop and waiting for clients to get in. Come in strangers, come smell the sigarette smoke with us.
Also the dresser in the room, which by the way looked really good and made of solid wood, had at least two drawers who smelled like the worst smell of feet I’ve ever saw. We just avoided those drawers and used others but we felt a little bit of the wonderful smell every time we opened another drawer.
It was a pretty place, we had plenty of dishes and cooking accesories for the time we did a little bit of cooking for fun.
The fan with “silent night (lol)” function was a good friend of ours. Also, the tea/coffee thing was useful.
Generally we liked it and had a good time after we cleaned. If you plan not taking care of cleaning at all please cancel the “enhanced cleaning” description and the cleaning fee and write instead “we only take the trash out and change the sheets, you do the rest please” and people will know what to expect and come prepared with new dish sponges, disinfectants and a mop so that they can walk barefeet in the apartment.
I really believe that for future guests they can make it a little bit cleaner and it will be a great stay.
P.S. It’s about half the size of what you expect finding from the photos. But it’s cozy and stylish so it makes up for that and you will not feel cramped.
P.S.2 Please let there be more toilet paper for future hosts. Two rolls for 8 days is just not enough for two people. Realised we had no toilet paper left one day during the early morning and had to wait until 8.30am when the G20 opened so that I could buy a pack of toilet paper rolls and be able to poop. (Yes too bad they don’t have bidets in France)