First of all, there are some good things that are worth mentioning:
- the internet works very well for Crete; if you need to work from home this is an advantage
- if you have a car, there is a big parking lot near the house, that was free at the time of our staying
- the location is ok and you can get everywhere super easy (supermarket, decent caffees/restaurants) if you do not have a car
Unfortunately for us the experience at Charalampos's place was not the best one. We booked the place for a long stay(52days) but left after only 4 days.
We arrived late in the afternoon and the smell inside the house was "off". Our initial thought was that the windows were closed and we just need to open them. The "interesting" part came the next morning when trying to prepare breakfast - the smell was from some rottened onions inside the cupboard. We then discovered that the stove was oily and sticky.
We had a discussion with the host about these aspects and he agreed to pay us back the cleaning fee. Our mistake was to accept this right away without understanding how bad the situation actually was. We started to clean the place and discovered products that were expired 5 years ago, most of the kitchen utensils were greassy and dusty.
We went back and forth with the host and as well with the Airbnb team in order to resolve this for about 4 days. The host considered that you cannot feel sick if you use condiments expired for 2 years and that the complaints are just because we don't actually want to clean the place in the end.
I am glad that we didn't end up doing it - it is not about using products that have expired for 2-5 years, but it shows the simple fact that nobody cleaned the kitchen in a very long time. We don't even want to think about how the rest of the house was cleaned - the dust under the beds in the bedroom speaks by itself. The host refused every other alternative that we proposed so we canceled the reservation and moved to another place.
This was a lesson for us and in the future we are going to pay attention to these types of "value for money" places.
All in all, if you don't want to cook or touch things in the kitchen or you don't look under the bed it might be a good place for you.
PS: We cannot attach relevant photos unfortunately.