I chose this place for location and price. It was for one night before I moved on to a place I rented for a longer period. It was OK for a night. Everything seemed fine until I arrived. Haiyan was, for the most part quite responsive even if his/her answers to my questions were very brief.
When i arrived at the address given to me it was not at first obvious which doorbell to ring so I emailed Haiyan. In the meantime someone from the building came out and let me in. There was one person already staying there but Haiyan did not come to show me around. When Haiyan finally did answer me the response was simply "you open 0304" and then "Open have keys 0403". Neither answer made any sense. They seemed refer to a lockbox code yet there was no evidence of a lockbox or any other keypad to enter this code. And it did not refer to the street address. I eventually found the keys in the door of the room and figured out which key belonged to which lock myself.
Once in I found the room easily enough and that was the first disappointment. Haiyan engaged in a typical deception using a wide angle lens to make the rather small room look bigger and brighter than it actually was. Then there was the issue of the WiFi. Upon entry to the room there is a notice with the WiFi address and a long complicated password, the kind automatically generated, as well as a QR code to scan. Nothing worked. The address did not exist and the QR code failed to connect to anything. When I asked Haiyan about this his/her answer was: "You try it’s one". Huh!? What does that mean? In the end there was no WiFi available.
On the same notice there was advertised a buffet style breakfast between 7:30am and 8:30am to be eaten in the living room. Well, needless to say the next morning there was no breakfast and as far as I could tell there was no living room, only a kitchen/dining area.
Then I received an email from Haiyan which I only saw after I left in the morning (since I had no internet connection) that I was required to send him/her my passport ID plus pay a 4 euro municipal tax. I am not in the habit of sending strangers my ID and there had been no mention of an additional 4 euro tax. (My next host did not ask for the 4 euros so I suspect that Haiyan was nickel and dimming me by passing the tax, if there was one, on to me.) I provided neither as I had lost any trust that I may have had subsequent to the disappointments mentioned above.
It should also be mentioned that there is some sort of business right next door that took delivery of goods from a very, very loud canal barge with a crane at 5am. So much for a good night's sleep.
Beyond all that the pillows were huge and hard and impossible to sleep on, the hot water took forever to come in and the place did not look overly clean. I never did meet the host. So my best advice is buyer beware.