Summary: Host forgot about us. Stood on the street for over an hour. Had it not been for the neighbor, we would have had nowhere to stay.
I had informed Daniel that we would be checking in around 7p and he was ok with that. I last communicated with our host at 1:37p letting him know we were on our way and he said that was fine.
We arrived at 7p exactly. We were greeted by some neighbors across the street, which was nice..at first, then they started taking pictures of us on their mobile phones. (weird)
I hit up Daniel at 7:10p seeing if he was close. Nothing. Then called. Nothing. My group and I waited on the side of the street for over an hour. I called the number listed on airbnb 6 or 7 times and sent a number of messages. No answer. There were no directions that I was given by Daniel previously on how to get into the apartment, just that he would meet us. We started to look to see if we could book a hotel for the night. My friend and I went across the street to ask neighbors if this was normal. The neighbor helped us make a phone call. He got through. Daniel was at the horse races and he clearly had a bit to drink, but he was able to give me clear enough directions to get into the apartment from that point.
I'm not going to go into a lot of the apartment just to say that, there is a smell of mold and sewage, we found slugs and spiders our rooms both nights, the toilet is basically a big stall with not sealed off room, so make sure you are comfortable going number 2 around the people you are staying with.
I hate leaving a review like this, but this experience upset us.