I made a mistake of booking an Airbnb with no ratings. This has to be the worst stay that I have experienced through Airbnb. I am not that kind of a person who is very hard to please. I have always given my hosts good reviews and have received good comments from them as well.Lets begin from the beginning.
We reached Athens at midnight with my wife and 15 months old daughter and ofcourse with lots of luggages. Stavros texted us one link to open the main door, which didn't work. When I called him, he opened the door remotely, though he sounded irritated. With all the luggages and a sleepy baby we came downstairs only to find the description of the flat is not matching with what Stavros had described. Upon saying that Stavros yelled at me as if I am someone illiterate. So with out arguing further I tried to
open the door, and after few tries.. guess what, one young couple came out of the room frightened. We discovered that , Stavros gave us wrong address and he kept the key number same to all his Airbnb's. At the midnight we had to walk to the right address with all my luggages and hungry baby.
So when we thought there was no more trouble, we found out that there was no hot water in the bathroom. But we were already tired and didn't want more conversation with the host that night as we already understood he was rude.
The Floor was dirty, there was no door mat infront of the bathroom ,and no mat bedside the bed aswell.. so we had to roam around with wet and dirty feet and had to get in to the bed with the dirty feet.
There was no Kitchen napkin so when my baby spilled her food on bed, immediately I had to take the hand towel for damage control. My wife had washed the towel and the bedsteets and there was no stains left on bedsheets..but there was stain on the hand towel. We thought we should mention this to the host. Later he charged 30EURO for this and we immediately paid him the money.In hind sight I think I should have done it through Airbnb.
Athens is a beautiful city and we enjoyed a lot. But the stay was terrible. We kinda felt relived after living the house. Hopefully only the good memories will stay!