We stayed for 2 nights in Joe’s Dublin apartment. It became apparent that booking this apartment was a mistake. To start off, Joe was consistently slow in responding to my pre-arrival messages. Early on, Joe said he would send us the directions/maps weeks before our trip was due to start however, they only arrived from someone else (Guisseppe) just a few days before our arrival in Dublin (we had already been in Ireland for a few days and coincidentally, I was about to cancel the reservation because of Joe’s lack of response to my 2 previous emails when Guisseppe‘s email arrived). Guisseppe advised that a Spanish friend would meet us at the apartment with the key and I thought things were back on track when Rocio met us at the apartment with her father at the agreed upon time. She seemed very nice and she gave us the directions & tour. As we just dropped our bags after Rocio left and went out to enjoy Dublin, it was only that evening & the next morning that we started noting the many deficiencies requiring correction for the benefit of future guests. The most noticeable negatives were: 1.spider webs at ceiling level around the top of all 4 bathroom walls, 2.the toilet tank trickled continuously which could be heard throughout the apartment (especially annoying while trying to sleep), 3.no hand soap in the bathroom & kitchen, 4.the bathroom sink is very slow to drain suggesting a partial blockage, 5.one of the 2 bathroom light shades is missing, 6.the bathroom exhaust fan did not work, 7.there was a handwritten note hanging in the dishwasher stating it was broken and to wash the dishes by hand, 8.there were stains on the couch, 9.a few kitchen chairs were stained and/or marked up on the cushioned seat, 10.there was hair in the shower from a previous guest, 11.although there was a clean fitted sheet on the bed, I am not convinced the comforter used as our top sheet was equally clean, 12.the kitchen cupboard doors & interiors need to be cleaned/wiped, 13.the walls are marked up in many places and the patch job on the holes in the gyproc apperared to be only a first coat. All baseboards were dirty, chipped and require repainting. 14.window sills, window blinds and many flat areas were dusty. 15.General sense of uncleanliness throughout. On the positive side, the wifi was excellent, the apartment is in a secure building (key fob to enter the complex and stairwell) and the location was OK as it is a 10 minute walk to the Temple Bar area. The downside to this is that this apartment is along Townsend St, a busy mixed commercial/residential street with lots of car/truck traffic at all hours. The traffic noise is loud enough through the windows so we didn’t open the door onto the balcony to get air or it would have been louder. This, of course, is not Joe’s fault but if noise is a concern to other...