This is a long review, but I suggest you reading it through before making any booking for this listing.
My partner and I initially planned to stay at Niko’s place for a month. Two weeks in, we invited our friends over to stay with us in the second bedroom, but unaware that we needed to ask the host’s permission first.
A few days after our friends came to stay with us, we suddenly received a message from Nikos, who was clearly upset and, with an aggressive tone, she said that she found out that we were more than 2 people staying at her listing, and demanded that we pay extra for the two friends staying (€20 for two people, per night). We apologized to her immediately for not having known that we had to ask for permission to invite friends to stay, and told her that we were more than willing to cover the charges for our friends, as long as she requested them via Airbnb. Our friends were planning to stay for a week, so 7 nights, which would make 140 euros in total.
She promptly requested US$284.66 (about 270 euros), which was almost twice the amount agreed upon, while accusing us of having our friends stay longer than what we told her. Here are her original words: “This is the corresponding sum for 2 more guests for 9 nights. We know for a fact that your guests were there from the 25th April as the man's voice was heard from the big balcony window of the blue room. His voice was distinctively different to the 2 voices of the 2 guests who booked the apartment.”
Later, she sent us another message threatening that, we quote, “Due to the fact that our trust has been breached, due to your inappropriate conduct, from now on the roof garden will be visited whenever it is needed without prior notice.”
We were prepared to pay the extra charges, but we started to feel more and more uncomfortable, even UNSAFE, mainly for 2 reasons:
First, Nikos discovered the presence of our 2 friends actually because she sent over a lady to water plants at the roof garden of the apartment which only we as guests had access to, WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE. There is another access to the roof garden from the building without having to pass by the apartment indoor area, but the roof garden is part of the listing and a private area included in the listing, which is explicitly described in the listing (title, photos, description…). It was probably around 9am local time. Our 2 friends were there in pyjama. My partner and myself were downstairs at the time but it could have been us being there in pyjama as well. The lady suddenly appeared, and did not explain her presence to our friends who were indeed a bit confused. She watered a few plants and left. My partner and I only discovered this later on when we received the agressive message from Nikos and mentioned this to our friends who then explained to us what happened on the roof garden.
Secondly, Nikos claimed that she knew “for a fact” that she heard (or someone else heard and told her??) in the apartment a voice which she believed was neither mine nor my partner’s on April 25th, whereas our friends only arrived on April 27th and we have their tickets as proof. We barely spoke to Nikos, and now she knows our voice??? This is just so creepy.
We then contacted Airbnb, packed our luggages and left Nikos’s listing immediately, as we really felt really unsafe by then. The Airbnb specialist team then conducted an investigation on this issue and gave us full refund, because of our suffering from PRIVACY VIOLATION during our stay at Nikos’s listing. Airbnb helped us settle the case in this emergent issue, and we are truly grateful.
However, as for Nikos’s listing, we genuinely do not recommend. The whole experience has caused us a lot of anxiety and stress.