The Lovely House wasn’t so lovely for us.
I guess it’s just a matter of standards. If your standards aren’t very high this place is ok. We would definitely not recommend this very dark hole apartment to friends. Pretty easy location. But we like to stay in a clean apartment when we are away for holiday. This apartment just wasn’t.
We have an Airbnb as well back in Amsterdam and are super host. All our guest rated our guest suite 5 star for being clean. I think we really want our guests to be happy when they stay at our place. Some Airbnb hosts just try to make quick money. That’s what this apartment owner does, have others organize the Airbnb, what results in tourist paying too much money for crappy hygiene.
The apartment is old but that’s not a problem at all and can have it’s charm but it needs to be well maintained. When we entered the apartment the toilet wasn’t cleaned which didn’t build confidence. Also the toilet seat had its best time. Although the woman who hosts the place, cleaned the toilet for us right away (after letting us know it’s difficult to find good cleaners) we kept stumbling on other things. The towels were very smelly, so you didn’t feel clean after drying yourself. The towels were so old the opposite of soft.
You could see the cleaners do a quick job when you look for it because there was a lot of dust in some places. And also a really bad smell in the bathroom, potpourri and perfume candles everywhere, we can understand why. Unfortunately you hardly have any signal with your phone in the place. And the WiFi is mobile. Meaning it has a SIM card inside so mostly there is no signal in the room with phone or WiFi. We had in mind to explore the internet on what to do the next day but there was no way to do this so we had to go outside to get signal.
Anyhow, other cleaners and new, fresh towels, bed linen and a much lower price would be a start.... oh and get your photo’s straight, because it’s not lovely and not light at all, it’s not maintained and smelly.
Fortunately we do recommend Rome, what a wonderful city!