1. It’s not a home. It’s a rectangle with an all glass front that opens right out on to a street..- so you’re obliged to keep the curtains drawn in order to have any kind of privacy
2. It defeats the original intention of Airbnb- this was just a large faceless commercialized box. No sugar, no milk for coffee, not a single bottle of water anywhere..no flowers on the table…no hint of ‘welcome home…’
3. We got there shortly before midnight and we couldn’t get in - our apartment had already been taken up…- apparently mix up with our keys having been handed out to someone else…so now our code opened the key box but there was no key in the key box and I could see the lights on in the apartment that was meant to be ours… I had 2 three year olds in the car who, after a 5 hour road trip were needing to use the bathroom…had to wait half an hour to get that sorted out..
4. The fan, when we switched it on the next day ( 30 degrees C outside ) blew dirt/fluff into my son’s hair…- needed 10 minutes to clean it up. Apparently no one bothers to clean the fan..? Apparently it hasn’t been switched on for the past how long..?
5. Even the check out didn’t go smoothly; turns out the new code for the new key box was wrong …. Again had to call owner to sort that out… ( question is, was I given the wrong code the night we came or did I write it down wrong…? - I’ll be fair and say both options are possible..
6. The back window opened into a relatively busy concrete back yard … so there too we kept the blinds closed and resorted to artificial light although it was beautiful and sunny weather outside.
7. Seriously the least welcoming Airbnb experience so far…well, maybe not the least..more secound least …and soo not worth the price. All in all we spent maybe 6 waking hours in this flat ( came in to sleep…and shower ) but that was 6 hours too many. Sleeping was fine - the beds were super comfortable.