I really had high hopes for this apartment but sadly, the experience was mediocre.
it began with Carina asking for a picture of my ID. I've never had to provide my ID before in all my years of using ABNB so I thought it was weird. But I researched and apparently some hosta will request it as a deterant for damaged/taken property. it's understandable. But Carina told me she needed it because the "building administration" needed it in order to check me in. I had a really late flight, arrival at 23:00 so I wanted to make I could check in without issue.
Check in: turns out "building administration" had no idea who I was. they didn't have my name or ID on file. The security guard even showed me the phone with all the IDs they received, mine was not in there. He asked me what apartment number I was in, I told him and it pulled up someone completely different from Carina and Allen. I tried to call Carina for help but the number she gave me was not a working number. After a lot of going back and forth for close to 30 mins over Google translate, he finally agreed to let me go in if I could provide proof that I knew where the keys were. A security guard followed me up and I was able to find the keys where Carina said they were. The next morning Carina returned my messages through ABNB and told me she gave me the wrong number.
The apartment was loud, which is to be expected since it was a big city but I found that the cleaning person did not do a good job. I only used one of the showers because it was just me but I found hairs in the shower and dried spill spots throughout the apartment.
Also, the walls are super thin. One day while I was working the upstairs neighbor was blasting techno music from about 10:00 to 15:00. I told Carina and she did her part in trying to get the neighborhood to turn off the noise. They lowered it but it was still pretty loud. Along with the dirty floors, the towels were stained.