First of all, to show that I am serious and objective in my writing, I want to say that I am a very heavy user of Airbnb as a guest and also a super host.
I had paid for this apartment for 3 people because of five star reviews. But We had to abandon it instantly right after check in for another place. There were serious issues that people need to consider if they concern about the air quality for their health due to Only One Single Window in the bedroom upstairs for the entire two story apartment.
When I opened the front door, I felt sudden fear from such a claustrophobic confinement.
I slowly went into the apartment. It looked clean and organized. but I had an instant reaction in my throat and had difficulty to breathe. My sister had trouble with her eyes. So I told Francesca via texts about that problem and requested her to refund my money, she said that she would do one night reimbursement.
During the back and forth writing, when I told her about my problem from mold due to my allergy against it, she was very upset and emotionally reactive by asking me to come back to her apartment to find mold. Right after that she sent another text saying that she wouldn’t reimburse anymore.
she was very prompt to write a review about me. I hadn’t met her.
During the very short time in the apartment we never had sat down anywhere except on the 2 dining chairs and didn’t touch anything. We spent our afternoon inside the front gate, searching for another apartment by calling airbnb.
I could contact Airbnb to let her pay me back as she said. But I have chosen to write an objectively detailed description about the place. That way people can read and decide if this place works for them.
( the dimensions are approximate.)
There was ONLY ONE WINDOW in the upstairs bedroom for the entire two story apartment. The window was facing to a tiny courtyard. But there were air conditioning units of neighbors sticking out an pumping out of hot air into it. So I had to close the window. Basically the whole house had no air in, no air out.
A bathroom and a tiny kitchen are in downstairs with low ceiling and with no single window. The bathroom was right beside the entrance door. When the entrance door is opened at 90 degree angle, bathroom door to the left as a part of a narrow hallway is facing the door. Length of Hallway was the bathroom plus one side of kitchen counter.
Kitchen floor was about 9ftx10ft, and there was a low ceiling over some part of the floor space. Under the ceiling a dining table of maximum 2.5ft x2.5ft was put against wall right into the only corner available.
That means, only 2 sides of the dining table were to be used with 2 chairs. This apartment was for 3 people. If we stayed there, one person must have eaten standing. There was one wooden stool, but no way to sit at the little table together.
There were metal steps to go upstairs to a sofa bed area and the bedroom. They were the open steps right over the kitchen stove. So whenever someone goes up the stairs, dust from the steps and from the shoes will fall down over the food.