Honest and non biased review of our last rent with Airbnb:
Pros:
Very lovely hosts, seriously caring about your well being during your stay.
Wonderfull area directly at the new harbour, busy, but not too crowded.
Clean spotless, bright, new, decoration
Nice room distribution.
Nice and modern interior, functional yet pretty.
Beds are rather on the hard side. Firm mattresses, only sheets to cover, but sufficient during summer.
At arrival, we were presented with a generous fruit bowl, cookies, water in the fridge. All there for an excellent start into your vacation.
And all possible amenities are already supplied!
E.g. shampoo, tea, coffee ground and instant, sandwich maker, coffee machine, full kitchen, water kettle, shower gel, cutting boards and even kitchen paper, olive oil and basic spices. All plates and glasses. Cups. No broom and shovel though (we borrowed the ones from outside).
Washing machine and washing detergent.
Intimate shower gel! Hairdryer and double wash basins, Toilet cleaner and towels.
Even romantic candles on your terrace.
Iron, and ironing board.
Even some booze and candy.
Scissor, bottle opener, cutlery and even emergency lights.
Equipped with double AC, but no need here. Even in summer the temperatures rise hardly over 35 degrees and around 25 at night.
Absolutely safe for kids, if you bring them.
Eating out at those countless close-by restaurants is a delight. All withing walking distance.
Cons:
The 2 hot cooking plates were a bit complicated at first. Wifey could not turn them off anymore. Well we are not used to that...
Overall space might get a little tight if you bring 2 kids. Our 3 and 6 y/o had a good time though.
The proclaimed "high-speed" internet is unbelievably sloooooooow. An average of 2 to 3 Mbps is not high speed internet.
The new harbour is meeting point for the young and old alike. Teens meet and present their tuned cars there and grown ups gather to visit the restaurants around. It's a bit busy at night. Specially when they keep dragging their sleepy infants around - until midnight.
The place has cute outdoor lighting, which stayes on all night though. Strong enough to make your night into day. Our kids would not sleep like that. As a frequent traveler, I fixed that by covering the windows with aluminium foil....
Just the same with the LED-emergency lights. Those two bright up the apartment at night, like 2 suns in the sky. Aluminium foil helped here too. No idea how can people could sleep like that.
Funny story: at the very last evening, the host showed us how to turn off the terrace lights at least. The switch is somewhere outside the apartment - no clue where. Gotta ask. Host seemed surprised, that we tend to sleep in darkness. ;)
All doors all difficult to close. Seals are new and firm, maybe the locks should have been adjusted better. Anytime you open a door, it springs open with a generous "krack" to wake up any sleeping kid behind it.
On the other side, you need quite some strength to close them properly.
Biggest con:
Gotta be a dog lover to rent this place.
Host and her family live just upstairs from you. Together with 3 dogs....
One of them, will bark for 24 hours a day. Day and night. Every day. All day. 7 days a week.
And of course, it encourages the other dogs to bark too.
Either outside the bathroom window on the stairs or inside, when they let him in - once in a while.
Paper thin walls do not provide any sound isolation - so it still sounds like the dog is barking next to your bed anyway.
First night was interesting - second was already devastating.... Kids didn't sleep at all with that constant barking. Of course not. How? I can not even imagine, how the hosts sleep next to those pets.
It's quite a challenge if you have to make your kids fall asleep again - about every hour during the nights. Every night....
You definitely don't need to bring an alarm clock!