This is a nice apartment in a really great location. Communications with Michelangelo were fine, and Sharon was very helpful getting us familiarized with the apartment.
However, I have significant complaints – very unusual for me. Because of them, I wouldn’t return.
One of our criteria for a rental is that it’s reasonably accessible. In this case, the listing describes the space as “Located on the third floor (with lift)”….. unfortunately, while the door is on the 3rd floor, the apartment is actually on the 4th floor. The lift goes to the 3rd floor and then one must navigate a difficult and tight 90-degree, 13-step stairs to get from the front door of the apartment to the living space. I travel with 4-wheel large bags and dragging them up the stairs required pulling up myself and my bags using the handrails. Without the handrails I could not have done it. With the handrails, even on a cold day I was sweating bullets after each bag.
The kitchen had none of the basics nearly every other Airbnb host generally provides to ensure guests have a comfortable “start-up”. This absence of basics required us to make a trip to the grocery store before we could even seriously begin using the apartment. A few examples:
•	The host wants us to take out the rubbish, but provides no rubbish bags – not even a starter one, so we had no place to throw rubbish other than a plastic container under the sink. Think about cleaning that out if you have coffee grounds to throw out, for example
•	There were no paper towels
•	No salt and pepper
•	No condiments
•	No wash clothes or scrubbing brush for cleaning dishes
•	No detergent for the clothes washer
•	No “kleenix” facial tissues
Another disappointment was the internet wifi in the apartment. I tend to use the internet a lot, including for uploading photos to SmugMug. While the download speeds were not great, they were not unacceptable. The upload speeds were agonizingly slow. I ran a SpeedTest and learned that “lovenest” produced ~6Mbps down and less than .4Mbps up. At that speed, I had to engage a mobile wifi to get anything done.
Note: the kitchen cabinets are at floor level. Some of them scrape the floor loudly and irritatingly when opened or closed. I would hate to be below this unit when the door to the refrigerator is opened, for example. It seems like a little sanding could fix this problem.
I like to leave at least as much as I found when I arrived. In this case, the next tenants will find all of the above-listed items plus some water, wine, jam, and coffee.