me and my wife feel really bad to write a bad review, specially when it’s a place with so many good reviews as this one, but we can just advise anyone reading this: stay away from this place.
if this review had to be written in just one sentence, it would be: “cockroaches in the kitchen”. for us, that would be enough.
it says on the description “The room is apart from other rooms for more privacy”. no, it’s not. it’s not a proper room, but a pantry room right beside the kitchen with a bed in it. even though the other guests were nice, every little thing done in the kitchen clings in your head while you try to sleep. every day at 6am we would be awaken by someone preparing coffee. and whenever someone cooked, all the smell was there.
besides that, this is a 3 bedroom apartment with this “extra” one. dalia lives in one, rents all the others. and it’s just one bathroom. it feels pretty much as staying in a cheap hostel, which is not the kind of experience and interaction i would expect from an airbnb listing.
i’m not saying here that dalia is rude or something. she was flexible for check in time, provided us some helpful information about the area, but actually we’ve seen her for 5 minutes when we arrived, another 10 minutes when we left. we didn’t feel like she was a hostess, but rather a polite business woman renting rooms. nothing more than that.
and the place is dirty. as simple as that, it’s messy and dirty. that was pretty shocking for us, since it’s rated as 5 stars for cleanliness. every time i turned on the lights in the kitchen, a bunch of cockroaches would crawl away from the shelves and tableware around. the bathroom was not as bad as that, but the clogged drain in the shower was disgusting. so, the experience was not good at all.
we don’t want to be unfair, so we have to note the good point: location is really good. nice neighbourhood, close to subway and metrobus, restaurants around. for me, i’d choose another place nearby, because the location itself is not enough for making this place worth staying.