The worst host I've had to deal with in my Airbnb experience ever. But let’s try to be positive; there are pros too. Let’s start with it...
Pros:
- Good location
- Fast communication
Cons:
(Just to let you know, I have pictures for pretty much every single point below to back it up. I wish I could post them somehow into my review but according to airbnb customer service, there is no such option at the time)
- The cheapest host I’ve dealt with on Airbnb ever. After dealing with Kristiana, it feels like she will do anything to charge you extra and she does not give a damn about her tenants at all; she sees us all just as pure euros and nothing more
- TV remote did not even had batteries in it. If you think that she simply did not know about it, you’d be wrong. After I tried turning the TV off using the remote, that obviously did not and could not work because it has no batteries, Kristiana took her own remote control from her purse, turned the TV off and placed it BACK INTO HER PURSE. This is just freaking crazy, if you’d ask me. I’ve never seen this kind of cheap and just stuped behavior in my life)). She might even charge extra for using the remote or TV, so bring your own AA batteries if you’d like to use the TV with the remote
- Insanely outrageous extra charges. She tries to charge us her insane 25 euro late check in fee, even though she said previously that it will be completely okay with her if we check in at 22:00pm instead of the 21:00pm, as she has it in her “House Rules” (it is partially my own fault of course because I should have read the “Rules” myself before booking this madness). But 25 euros. Why so much? It is 5 euros less than was our daily rate at the apartment and 5 euros more than the minimum daily salary in Latvia, according to checkinprice.com as of 2021
- The shower had black mold all over
- The stove was all dirty and greasy from previous tenants, as well as the microwave.
- The main bed had an extremely cheap and uncomfortable mattress. My pack still hurts from sleeping on it
- The internet was so slow that we decided to run a speed test to see how slow it really was. According to the Ookla speed test, the living room had 0.27 Mbps; the bedroom didn’t get any signal at all
- Half of the light bulbs were burned off. Probably to save money on the electricity
- Kristiana is so cheap and ghetto that she even uses old shopping plastic bags for all garbage cans. Which now, after meeting her, is not surprising at all. We had one red from Rimi; another was a white one. She is a lade with a real soviet mentality
- The Ironing board seemed to be from the 80s and all dirty but did not really matter because the iron itself was even dirtier. It had some black crap stock to the ironing surface. So I would never even touch my clothes with it
- For the check out she appeared exactly at 10:00am, hoping that we’ll be not ready and late to check out on time to charge us with another of her nonsense charge of 25 euros
- While looking for a cooking pot, we found two pairs of old used sleepers in the cabinet. I wonder if she even cleans her cabinets at all because a normal person would never put dirty sleepers with cooking pots
- The liquid hand soap in the bathroom that had a pure white liquid soap inside, was coming out liquid of dark brown color when you press on the dispenser. I had no clue what was inside of it before but it was just disgusting. We decided not to use it for our safety and purchased our own soap
It gets really loud outside, if you open windows due to the narrow streets downstairs and the apartment being on the 1st level. You can literally hear what people are talking about when they pass by. Plus, garbage trucks came early in the mornings.
The curtains are too light so the apartment gets bright really early
- All the art work, TV and other furniture had so much dust that it felt like the apartment wasn’t cleaned for the entire year
- Finally, the apartment building is really old that it even has a huge crack on the wall and stairway that is coming from the first floor. It will be right above your head if you stay where we stayed on the first level
I just can’t believe how big and many CONS the review has, but I’m sure that I even missed something. I think you get the picture anyways. This is the first time when I did not clean an apartment after stay. I just could not make me.
Contact me to see the pictures if you wish to see them yourself and most importantly, stay away from this CHEAP & CRAZY greedy person. There are so many nice people in Riga that rent out beautiful and cozy apartments. While Kristiana is renting this one, it is not one of them.
Good luck and fun travels to you all. Peace!
Best,
Andrei