The main selling point of this apartment is the location which is excellent and two steps from the Spanish ones. The wifi is excellent, it is quiet despite being close to two busy restaurants. The look of the decor is as you see it and executed consistently in a shabby chic style. The host Alessandro was extremely helpful at check in.
However, for us, the negatives outweighed the positives:
We didn't enjoy relaxing in the living room as it has no windows and the lighting is pointed at the ceiling so making the atmosphere rather bright and bland. The fixtures and fittings were very basic and in some cases broken. For example, the lid of the bathroom bin was detached. The coat rack was not well fixed and occasionally fell off the wall. The wardrobes were roughly painted and there was the odd gap between the drawer front and the bottom of the drawer so things could fall out. The kitchen was very basic although to be fair, we didn't cook in it. The terrace would be useful if you smoked but otherwise is surrounded by tall buildings so you have to look up to get light.
Although the apartment was clean, there were laundry bags under the bed liked beached whales. Half the wardrobe was filled with more laundry bags which meant there was no full length hanging space. There were old hotel slippers, in the bottom of the wardrobe, 'spare' carrier bags and if you looked hard an iron. Lots of hotel individual soaps (?) were in a basket in the bathroom. Despite the linen bags, there was no duvet cover on the duvet which looked worn although the bed was dressed with a sheet so we were not in direct contact with it.
We booked this flat as a couple so the space sort of worked. Had we been occupying it with four people, we would have been pretty unhappy. The living room / bedroom has no windows and can only access the bathroom through the main bedroom. The main bedroom has no door.
This was our second Airbnb experience. We were ecstatic about our first apartment, but disappointed in this one.