TLDR: pay extra and stay somewhere else, this place sucks.
I’ve never written a negative review on Airbnb but I guess there’s a first time for everything.
The good: the location
The bad and the ugly: worst check-in experience ever - had to get the keys in a different building, the host was nowhere to be found and the keys were “missing”. Contacted Airbnb support and after an hour I finally accessed the apartment.
Cleanliness (or lack there of): there were long hairs inside the bed covers (I’m bald) - when I examined the bed more closely I noticed the sheets were either stained or dirty. The bathroom had mold and that pink bacteria that grows when you don’t wash your shower on the walls. Spotted (and killed) two baby cockroaches on the floor my first night there.
Internet is about 15 to 30 mbps but the connection is spotty (not the best for streaming or working).
There was construction happening in the apartment above, in the apartment across the hall, and in the building next door (this was extremely bothersome since I was working from home).
Without any notice someone started drilling outside the apartment’s door on Saturday morning, which completely startled me. I thought someone was trying to break in so I called the cops but they were finished before they showed up so I called them back again to let them know not to come (they installed a thing to store the keys).
The host is pretty stingy. Shampoo was not provided, no bags in the waste baskets, and only provided one large garbage bag for a week’s stay. Tiny kitchen = not the best for cooking so I ordered out and collected a ton of trash since the host didn’t provide any instructions as to what to do with it.
Only reason I didn’t leave was because everything was sold out due to the Día de los muertos festivities and the Formula 1 happening in Mexico City (I checked).