Well, there’s been some good and some bad, but a few things were just amazingly bad:
1. As mentioned above, told me to go to “Roma” Street, which I looked up on navi and, being in a different borough, got a wrong Roma. Caused a LOT of stress and waste of time.
2. Did not mention horrible construction noise starting at 8am right outside and when I brought it up, said “what can I do? They’re renovating a hotel...” WARN MAYBE?
3. Ceiling under the balcony/bedroom is definitely not for a 6-footer. Hit my head more than a couple times.
4. No windows
5. There’s probably more, but my cup was overfilled when she said 4 lies in one sentence:
I asked her to call a toy store for me and ask if they have Italian made. She responded about an hour later (when I’ve already bought some) saying “1. I phoned the number you gave me and 2. they told me 3. that their toys are made of Italian products but manufactured by Chinese, so even if you read MADE IN CHINA, 4. it's a safe product”
Do I need to say that she obviously hasn’t called because by then, the only salesperson there has already met me and knew I found some Italian toys.
With a couple of unsuccessful recent Airbnbs, going forward I will be asking the host if that’s their property or they are just managing it. Clearly cases like this good ratings came from some other manager which had a good rating and passed it along. When I asked her (post checkin) she did not tell me.