Unfortunately, when I arrived, the apartment had no power. It was also not up to cleanliness standards, and had clearly been superficially “cleaned”; the acidic smell of whatever cleaning agent had been used was so strong that I had to open both windows after 5 minutes to dispel the headache it gave me.
I reported all of this immediately, and although I was told this would be fixed quickly, that didn’t happen and due to a series of slow responses from the host during a very busy workday for me, I ended up sleeping in the apartment that night without power, lights or hot water.
The next day, the host offered another apartment for me to move to, but miles from my centrally booked location. Without another option, I accepted, but arrived at the new apartment to find it hadn’t been cleaned either — dirty cleaning rags were actually lying around the floors — and despite letting the host know, this wasn’t fixed for 3 more days.
Overall, slow responses / fixes despite good intentions.