The host waited for us (we were delayed by over 3 hours), helped with our luggage up 3 flights of stairs (which was wonderful of him as our bags are heavy), showed us everything and had stocked the fridge with fruit, eggs, milk, juices. He also gave us money to buy more laundry detergent. The apartment however did not live up to expectations. To get to it you go through the door on the street, through a lobby, through one building entrance and into a rear open space and then into the building where the apartment is. There is a restaurant in the building where the apartment is and the staircase up to the apartment reeks of food. The staircase is also dirty with peeling paint, dimly lighted, and there were some building materials stacked on the second floor landing. The clothes dryer is very weak and we had to run it for hours before it would dry even a few clothes. The a/c is weak also and the host can control it remotely. He wouldn't let us reduce the temperature below 19. The TVs are connected so you cannot watch one thing in the bedroom and watch something else in the living room. There are cameras in the bedroom and living room which creeped us out. The host said they are for an alarm system that wasn't working but it concerned us given that he could control the apartment temperature remotely. We were not sure that he couldn't see us through the cameras. The floors in the kitchen area were buckled. We got there on a Wednesday night and were supposed to spend 11 nights. The first night we heard loud thumping club music that did not stop until after 1 a.m. It was the same the next night. The host said he didn't know anything about this but we cannot believe that others would not have heard this. As with others experience, we also felt there was a mustiness and "off" odor. The "curtain free" windows in the kitchen and bathroom apparently have a reflective surface on the outside. Which, the host said, are reflective as long as the light on the inside doesn't exceed the outside. The buildings on the courtyard are maybe twenty feet away.