They talk a nice game, but this unit is NOT worth renting! Please note: I use Airbnbs a lot and have NEVER had a bad experience or given a bad review until now.
I have requested a 50% refund for this rental because of a number of safety, cleanliness and noise issues:
1) The smoke detector beeped every five minutes during my ENTIRE stay of nearly 2 weeks (we eventually checked out 10 days early). I contacted the owner/manager of the unit the night I arrived and despite many promises, this was not fixed. They told me to remove the battery (it is NOT safe to remove the battery and risk no alarm in a fire, and probably illegal for them to have it off). She also suggested I do so by dragging the tiny ikea kitchen table over to stand on since ceiling is 10' - no thank you. Despite promising me that someone was coming twice, nobody ever came to fix it. So yes. Loud beeping EVERY 5 MINUTES for nearly 2 weeks. Sleep much? No, I did not.
2) When we arrived, the apartment had a very bad smell of mold and was dirty. I washed all the surfaces and dishes myself, and bought cleaning supplies and scrubbed black mold out of the washing machine. I asked the host if their “cleaning woman” could at least drop off some bleach (“yes, of course!” It never came. Eventually I bought some myself because it was needed. The day before so checked out early, she said the cleaning woman left it outside the wrong apartment. Hmmm.)
3) The floors were dirty and sticky, to the point that when you walked across the floor barefoot at night (to go to the bathroom or whatnot), there was a kind of lint stuck to the bottomed of your feet. We would have to rub it off our feet because it seemed gross to put those dirty feet into the clean bed. We found the last guest's socks on the bedroom floor and there were cleaning buckets scattered around unit - in the bathroom (which is more normal maybe, if not very attractive), but also in the hallway etc.
4) a few days into our stay the light for the very long hallway to the door stopped working. This seems like not a big deal, unless you understand this is a VERY LONG hallway, so without a light, it is pitch black at the door itself. As a result, we had to had to use a flashlight to see where to put our keys to lock or unlock the door. Not the end of the world but it definitely would be a safety issue in an emergency and was certainly a pain if we had bags etc, because one hand had to hold a flashlight or phone while the other hand did the key, so everything always had to be put down and picked back up to enter or exit. We let them know immediately and of course this was also never fixed.
5) This is a minor point perhaps, but with every other thing, I think also an indicator of what kind of host this is. We arrived for a month long stay. They knew we were coming from another country. We arrived after nearly 20 hours of traveling and NO toilet paper at all. Not one piece. So before we could sleep, I had to figure out where a grocery store was (thankfully not far) and trek out to buy TP. Not cool, guys.
Overall, decent location, and lots of promises. But I would 100% NOT recommend this rental or host. And I have never given a bad Airbnb review in my life.