We stayed twice in Haris apartment. After the negative experience of the first week, I decided to avoid writing immediately a negative review - even if honest - to avoid the embarrassment to meet the host after only 6 days in the same apartment. During my second stay, the negative impressions were confirmed and I then summarized them in a review (even if Haris proposed me to avoid writing any review in a private message). Only now, after the host decided to publicly respond to my negative review, I decided to replicate the only way possible by leaving a review on my first stay.
I have to repeat myself: the apartment is not as it appears in the photos. Some furniture (the desk and the chair in one of the two rooms) are no longer there. But this is not a big problem. The apartment, however pleasant and of historical relevance, was quite untidy but unfortunately dirty.
But the most serious problem involved the relationship with Haris.
Especially in the response to my first review (that you can easily read between all the others), Haris questioned my fatherly figure for deciding to return with two small children one week later in the same apartment that I had deemed dirty! This is really unfair because Mr. Haris knows exactly that I had booked both the stays before coming to Greece. I was back in the same apartment because I had already booked before leaving and I would have lost all my money. I do not hide the fact that my wife helped cleaning the house on our return. This attitude is unacceptable and is aggravated by the fact that Mr. Haris insisted that the bedroom floor was scratched due to the moving of a piece of furniture on our part. I reiterated over and over again that none of our family has ever moved that piece of furniture but it has not been enough. I therefore made sure to report the review of Haris. What has happened is very sad because it has undermined our respectability and, in part, ruined our holiday. I’m not used to this kind of situations and we’re really sad about all this arguments. We’re very respectful of people and props and that’s why we love to use Airbnb for our holidays. Hopefully this is an exception and I really hope that even with Haris everything went too far. Hopefully not further. Otherwise I will have to protect our integrity.