I’ll start by saying that the location was excellent, but after reading all of the other review, we were quite disappointed with our experience.
For starters, Eleni offered to arrange our taxi from the airport. We sent her all of the information requested and asked how/where to identify the driver. After several hours, we hadn’t received a response and could not find our driver, so we took a taxi in our own. An hour and a half after our flight landed, I received a ride message that our driver was waiting and she thought we had an understanding. Then, the pictures we were sent to identify the building were incorrect, which made finding it at night difficult. The listing said there would be water in the fridge, but there wasn’t. Not a huge deal, just inaccurate.
On day 2, the key broke in the door to enter the building. After reading through reviews, it was clear that several other visitors had difficulty with the door. The key clearly broke from normal wear and tear, yet we were told we would be charged for it. The host did not apologize or seem to care about the inconvenience at all.
The bed is extremely hard, and the bedroom was very noise from people in the alley at night. There was black mold in the shower, no washcloths, and there was a drying rack full of laundry in the kitchen. I asked multiple times what we should do with the laundry, and didn’t receive an answer until the last night when she told me to just leave it alone; the problem was it took up space and we needed the drying rack for our own laundry. The hot water in the shower only lasted for about 2 minutes.
Finally, this is no fault of the host, but we were scolded by a neighbor for talking in the corridor. It was outside of quiet hours and it seemed this neighbor was not happy that an apartment in the building was being used as an airb&b.
In terms of having a place to put your head down in a great location, this met the mark. However, the other things made the experience unpleasant and uncomfortable.