On arriving, half of the lights and the AC did not work and the power cut off if more than two things were on at once. Sunday, host messages asking if it’s OK for an electrician comes to finish off some work. Thinking this means a short visit to repair something, we say yes and that we will tell her when we leave for the day. Next morning, we decide to go for breakfast before returning to the apartment to get ready for the day. We return at 10a.m. to find the door open and the workmen (host’s husband) already inside. We had not sent a message saying we had left, the host had confirmed the previous day that she would wait for our message. The workmen tell us they need the apartment until at least 5.30-6p.m. We leave and ask the host when we will be allowed back, if 3p.m. would be OK. She tells us there is a safety issue in the apartment and the workmen cannot leave until it is fixed. We return at 6p.m. and try to relax after being forced out of the room the whole day. Host messages saying she is outside and there to clean up any mess left by the workmen. At this point we are exhausted and just want to lie down for a bit, so I inform her that everything is fine and to leave it. Despite this, we later found the bed to be covered in broken bits of stone from the walls and we found some cuttings of wires in our luggage. Also a blue substance (plasticizer, impossible to remove from fabrics) had leaked out of the wires down the walls and onto my partners’ white shoes.
We were rented an unfinished, potentially dangerous room, with most things not working. Our space was invaded and we lost access to our room for 8 hours, a whole working day. The host apologised very inappropriately asking us to not leave a bad review, a message filled with sad face and heart emojis.
The apartment is also not sound-proofed at all and in a very busy area. There was no toilet seat on the toilet (it was broken and under the kitchen sink). The only thing that is good about this place is the shower and italian style rainfall shower head, although the hot water does run out pretty quickly.