The apartment has the potential to be extremely comfortable, yet little care is taken by the host to provide a positive experience. We arrived in the evening (after informing the host in advance of our travel plans) and had to wait outside for 10 minutes to receive the lockbox code.
The interior was bare-bone. The water heater was turned off, and the beds were undone. The bed covers were old and discolored, and the couch was missing a cover altogether. No welcome goods or bottled water were provided. Looked as if nobody had redied the unit for us. The host justified himself by saying that the unit is rented as a "vacation home" and hence no such services are ever provided.
The following morning I swept up a decent amount of dust from the kitchen floor.
We recycled our trash using the provided colored bins, yet could not find a trash recollection calendar inside the unit. Lastly, the house rules indicated we needed to pay a 1,50$ per person tourist tax, but did not specifiy how to do so. On the last day I asked the host and was told to leave cash on the table before leaving.
We looked this up online and discovered the tax was actually only 1$ per person during the month of October. Is there any reason why this tax could not be added to the overall cost and paid for directly through Air BnB? Not only there is a lack of transparency around this, but asking someone to leave cash behind is extremely odd and inconvenient. We ended up not having coins to pay for this on our last day.