The neighborhood is nice, the apartment is very spacious, feels just like you are in a small art gallery. The bed is very comfortable. Having two bedrooms is nice too, great for people with different schedules.
However, we experienced many hiccups during our stay.
Check in was supposed to be via lock box, but at the last minute the plan changed, we ended up needing to make one stop to meet the host’s friend to get keys. Not as described, not convenient.
For sure there is noise in the city, first we had neighbors partying until 3am on the first Wednesday and Thursday night.
At 3am we thought there would be silence, then the bakery downstairs starts baking with energetic music at 5am daily. We found it very hard to sleep. With the help of white noise and wearing ear plugs, we started getting used to the noise after our month long stay.
One morning, the gas stove kept igniting repeatedly every 60 seconds. It was very annoying. The host didn’t have any suggestions or solutions so we had to find a way to reset it in our own.
Two days later, somebody opened the door with keys without knocking while we were sleeping in our PJs. He said he was the plant guy coming to water the plants and afterwards asked for around USD25.
We contacted the host— he said plant care fee is compulsory payment by Airbnb guest weekly, just he forgot to tell us.
He had also added some weekly compulsory cleaning fee after we booked.
One Saturday we came back to the apartment from breakfast. Scared us to death someone was in the apartment. ‘Plant day’ changed from Friday to Saturday without any notice. Very disturbing stay.
Check out is at 11am. His cleaner came at 9:45 without knocking, opened the door with her keys, came in and ripped all the sheets off bed the first thing and started cleaning when we were still on a conference call for work. We left the house at 10:05 once our meeting was finished.
I don’t usually write such long reviews, as we are pretty flexible but I think future guest should know about this one.