The good things:
- location
- quick communication
The bad things:
Unfortunately, we cannot recommend this place. We expected the room to be basic and were fine with that, but what we did not expect was that it would smell and that the bedding would be unclean. I don’t know if it was the sheets that hadn’t been washed, or if it was the pillows and mattress themselves underneath, but these smelt terribly of stale sweat. You can see under the pillow cases the staining from previous people sweating too, which was quite horrible. We found them so bad that we actually didn’t want to use them and rolled our jumpers up to sleep on instead.
- The lock was practically falling off the door, and so we didn’t feel safe leaving our belongings in the room when we went out.
- The bathroom again smelled really bad (although we appreciated it must be hard to ventilate the space, so that might be why). We were disappointed too to only be given one old bath size towel and one hand towel between two of us…
As I said, we expected basic accommodation and we have stayed in hostels and cheaper places many times before, so we weren’t expecting anything fancy. However, this room was just not a nice place to be in… This has been the only negative review I’ve ever written about an airbnb and I feel bad for writing it - but I wish we’d known before we booked that it would be like this!