You can't fault the location of this place, it's at the heart of the action and yet very quiet at night, just the perfect combo. But the flat, while cheap is also pretty shabby, especially the bathroom where the shower recess was crummy by any standards. Also no hanging or storage space in upper bedroom whatsoever, which is mean and impractical. The upstairs bedroom is really a mezzanine shared with lower bedroom so if you are sharing with friends who snore, you hear, and vice versa, so the space is quite intimate and not private at all.

In the sitting room there was one decent sofa and one very uncomfortable velvet chair so four people sharing have trouble sitting comfortably. The reading light in the main bedroom was excellent but appalling in the second bedroom.

The kitchen is not very well equipped and could do with upgrading some utensils.

Basically my understanding is this is not an owner airbnb but a sublet and it feels a little neglected and uncared for. As our host Emilio was completely indifferent and unapologetic when dust from upstairs renovations covered our things and we were disturbed by persistent drilling. An apology would have been the decent and gracious thing. The flat was also not ready on time despite very clear info about our arrival time and there is nothing more depressing when you have travelled for 23 hours than being met by someone else's laundry and rubbish and then on top of it all, the cleaner first not turning up and then taking four hours to do a job we were told would take two. A shrug just is not the adequate response. While it was nice that Emilio showed our friends who arrived first round the neighbourhood, they were desperate to collapse and have wash and could not do either.

I know you get what you pay for but we have had other airbnb experiences at this pricepoint that represented much more genuine care and thoughtfulness.