As most people I rarely leave reviews. Outstanding hosts and locations as well as utterly terrible ones are the exceptions. Sadly, this review falls into the latter.
Upon walking into the building I was hit with the smell of stale cigarettes. Hoping for the best I opened the door to the flat and unfortunately was confronted with the origin of that horrific smell. It reeked of a basement bar in Cairo. Other the the stench the flat was fairly clean with the exception of some small stains on the linens - another uh oh sign.
That night we were in for another surprise. We couldn't keep the windows open due to the deafening street noise and thus had to resort to using the air conditioning. Having lived a long time in Southeast Asia I'm accustomed to using A/C and can tell when the machine hasn't been serviced as I wake up with a sore throat. That's exactly what happened here, I breathed in the rancid air the first night only to wake up not being able to swallow. The second night I sweltered not wanting to aggravate my already inflamed tonsils.
Honestly, the flat wasn't awful if they could simply clean, not allow smoking (there were ashtrays everywhere) and service their air conditioner units. Until that happens though I would stay away.