Very bad, bad, bad place
I don't know where to start and it is not what they advertise or even close. Very deceiving photos and description in their advertisement and so many issues but I will point out the main ones to help other rentals not to fall in this trap:
1. The entrance to the building was very dirty and junks pilled there. There were two small elevators but only one works because the other was out of work for along time (according to one tenant) and it is a 6 floors building with many apartments. The apartment on the 4th floor. Waiting for the elevator sometimes can take long time.
2. The place smell really very very bad. The minute you open the door you hit with a very strong smell of sewage and you will smell it in your clothes even after you leave the place. That smell continuously getting worse.
3. There was only fitted sheet on the bed and no pillowcases or flat sheet but the WORSE was the fitted sheet was ripped with blood stain.
4. The bathroom: It was so dirty and the molds and mildew all over the shower and tiles. What even WORSE, the shower drainage was CLOGGED. When we turn the water, it floods all over the bathroom floor and we couldn't use the toilet or the sink, It is a very small bathroom as shown in the advertisement.
5. Not well equipped. Kitchen with minimum and very limited furniture, only two chairs for the dining table, cheap metal night stands, no blanket or any extra cover, throw...only one wine glass...and only two bath towels.
6. The view and the entrance to the apartment. the minute you got out of the elevator you face very narrow hallway because a huge 3 door wardrobe set in the hallway exactly in front of your door and left only narrow passage for one person at a time (it is a safety issues if something happen!).
The view, not as advertised, you view the garbage bins from the dirty windows. that will be your view.
7. Broken faucet in the kitchen and even the host acknowledge that was for sometime...WOW! so hard to use the faucet.
8. Communication wasn't easy at with the host. I have to contact them about the check in because they w
didn't contact me within 24 hours as they claim. Also, when contacting them about the problems in the apartment they offer unreasonable solutions and time.
9. There wasn't toilet paper or shampoo...You have to bring/buy your own.
Bottom line, it was really my first bad experience and airbnb was involved from the beginning in this all the way and contacted the host to fix major issues (clogged shower, clean sheet and pillow cases..). After 3 days, the host sent someone to fix the shower and brought clean sheets and pillowcase and towels. It took him almost an hour and a half to fix the clogged shower and dry the flooding water in the bathroom floor. However, the smell of the sewage gets even worse and the shower wasn't fixed and drain properly even after he tried to fix it, so it wasn't usable after I wasted my morning waiting for the repair man.
The cons are it is a good location with air condition. That is all what I can think of, and I hope guests need to be always honest, fair, and detailed with their review so we can help each other.
My husband and I stayed in the apartment for the seven booked days because we couldn't find an alternative place to move to in that area in short notice...we were stuck with it and it did really rewind our vacation.
Thanks to airbnb for helping us during our stay and contacted the host and without their help we wouldn't have clean sheets to at least sleep and able to use the sink to wash up without going over flooding bathroom floor.
Note: The host were not helpful and considerate...disappointed!