The location and value of this is great. Easy access to public transportation, lots of food, shopping, bars, and things to do right outside the apartment. Iosif was a great host up until the end. Check in was a little inconvenient due to conditions outside of Iosif’s control, so I had to drop off my luggage and leave while he prepared the room. Otherwise, he started out to be very accommodating and went out of his way to help me out. However, on the last day, we had some issues.
We were supposed to turn the AC off whenever we left the room (which we did) except the AC is kind of finicky so it did not always turn off when we hit the power button, which we did not realize and were not warned about. First of all, that morning, he asked us to turn the AC off even though we were still in the room, and we did. However, we went out to explore the city and when we came back to stop in for an hour, we turned it on because we were hot and tired from walking around, and the room was just as hot as it was outside. We then turned the AC off (hit the power button) and left the apartment and five minutes later, we received videos from Iosif scolding us for leaving the AC on and accidentally leaving the bathroom light on. We were confused because we were sure to press the power button on the AC to turn it off, but didn’t realize that it was not actually completely off. We were only a street away so we offered to come back, unlock our door, and turn the AC off but Iosif’s solution was to turn off the power to the whole apartment (which we thought was temporary). We came back late at night after meeting up with some old friends to find that Iosif did not turn the power back on, and we had to leave for a long day of travel at 5am. We could not charge our phones, we couldn’t turn on lights (we packed in the dark), and it was incredibly hot which made it almost impossible to sleep. We took cold showers to try and cool down so we could sleep. My friend’s phone died in the middle of the night so her alarms did not go off, but luckily mine had less than 15% when we woke up and so we were still able to make our travel plans (but my phone died before we got to the ferry which made for a painfully long experience). We were just shocked that he would leave all power off for the remainder of our stay to punish us for a mistake which we apologized profusely for - and it felt like he took advantage of us. He was a great host up until then, and I hope he never treats another guest like that ever again.
Also, just an fyi, the listing says it has laundry (which is one of the reasons why we chose this Airbnb) but it is out of order.