Positives
Gabor was hosting since the host (Karl) is working away from here. Gabor was very attentive. He helpfully picked us up from the ferry port and, when the water was accidentally turned off, responded very quickly and fixed the problem. His communication is good and clear. We stayed 3 days since our aim was to do the local coastal walks. The apartment was ideal for that. It is a short walk to the harbour and not far to the supermarket. At this time of the year (Winter) it was also very quiet in the housing complex. There is a bus stop almost at the door for moving on to Victoria. WIFI was good and the washing machine worked well and was a plus.
Negatives
This apartment was the most expensive of our 3 month Italy/Malta trip and, for the price, the least adequate. Given the cost we would have expected more attention to detail. It needs attention and is not good value for money. Here are examples of how the apartment let us down.
The gas stove needs adjustment. It is impossible to cook slowly and gently since the setting allows rapid boil and boil! It made cooking at home a challenge.
There are no ovrhead light fittings, just bare bulbs. Not good enough for the price and the bulb wattage is too low. It made the kitchen area very dark.
The herbs and left over provisions need tossing out and renewing. Most have set like concrete and are out of date. The left over couscous had weavels in it (yuk!)
There is no cutting knife (eg, for preparing vegetables) just a serrated bread knife and serrated steak knives neither of which are good for food preparation. This meant we had to resort to our own small pen-knife to prepare our food.
Apart from a flat griller tray in the oven there is nothing to bake with – at least a baking dish and a casserole dish is required.
The heating was adequate in the form of 2 column heaters and, while we understand that an air conditioner will be installed soon, it really should be a standard inclusion at this price. Ditto , for there not being a tv.
The usual inclusions that have been included in every other Airbnb on this trip
(eg soap/body wash) were not provided and so, for the first time on this trip we had to buy body soap.
The bedding was inadequate for winter, and certainly inadequate, for the double bed where it was prepared with single covers. We had to find heavier doonas in wardrobes, but there were no covers and we could not use one of these doonas – it was “stained”.
Shower Screen is off the tracks and very difficult to close.
In short, attention is required if this apartment is to come up to scratch, sorry to say. We expect what we pay for and Karl’s apartment did not fulfil our expectations relative to other Airbnb experiences over 10 years. We do not recommend it to the airbnb community.