Upon arriving in Paris, the location of this Air BnB was great. There is a full supermarket across the road with everything you need as well as bars / restaurants lining the streets behind the Air BNB. However, we soon learnt, this was the only thing the Air BNB had going for it.
As soon as you walked into the Air BNB, you could feel how dirty the apartment was. Taking off your shoes and walking around in your socks for 5 minutes turned the bottom of your socks black. The floor had clearly not been mopped in quite a while.
The host knew we had four people in the apartment, but only provided three towels. We randomly searched a cupboard and luckily found an extra towel but had no idea if it was clean or not.
For our one week stay, we were only provided two rolls of toilet paper. This quickly ran out and we had to go purchase more with our own money.
We were provided no information in the apartment regarding the amenities, such as the WIFI password. In order to get the password, we had to go search for free WIFI at the closet McDonalds and ask the host, who took 24 hours to respond!
There was a kitchen, but it may as well had been roped off as there was no pots and pans, next to no cutlery and only two glasses. The toaster almost caught on fire when in operation and the dishwasher actually made the utensils we used more filthy (the exit plug for the dishwasher was clearly blocked and the grim could not exit the dishwasher).
The light in the first bedroom did not work and there was a handful of power plugs that did not work. The apartment itself felt like it was under renovation, as there were holes in the plaster board where they were the host has been doing plumbing and electrical work. This definitely did not feel safe.
With these flaws being highlighted, we thought we could at a minimum do some vacuuming to clean the floor. We found a vacuum with no vacuum bag in it, so this idea went out window. Next to the vacuum was an iron that did not turn on, should have thrown it in the bin.
Even if we wanted to dispose of any rubbish, there was a metal trash can with no bin liners and no information whatsoever as to where to dispose the rubbish after the trash can got full. This trash can was disgusting to put it lightly.
This apartment cost $3,000 AUD for 7 days, not worth the money and will be taking this further with Air BnB.