This was a very mixed Airbnb experience. We had a weeklong stay and there were some highlights, some things that were fine and some portions that were a tad lacking. Overall, I don’t think it deserves the Airbnb Plus tag. Notably, amenities one expects out of basic Airbnbs were missing. To provide some balance, I’ll try to cover the spectrum of our stay, from the good to the less good.
The space is thoughtfully designed, with a cool sitting area. It’s got lovely plants, a nice coffee table and some unique chairs. It’s also in a great area. It’s right above Cafe Nin, an amazing place to get breakfast, which we went to almost every day. It’s centrally located, not too far walking from many places you’d want to go. The supers who tended the apartments were very kind and thoughtful and went out of their way to help us.
The apartment isn’t particularly sound isolated, so bring earplugs for sleeping. They start setting up the cafe at 6 AM. There’s a very pretty juliette balcony that provides you with a great view, but the door to it has some gaps, so expect to always hear the sounds of the city. We didn’t get particularly great sleep even with earplugs, but that’s a price you pay for the location.
The wifi speeds usually hovered around 2 mbps - fast enough for reading the news, but don’t expect to be able to work out of here if it requires a video connection.
There are some pretty specific rules about the laundry that are posted in the laundry room, but should definitely be in the outline given to you in the apartment, as that’s where you would expect to find them. I didn’t read them when I went down one night (and that’s on me), but it did result in my wet clothes being locked in overnight.
The most frustrating part of our stay was the lack of some kitchen and bathroom basics.
In the bathroom, the bath soap bottle was almost completely empty when we arrived. We ran out the very next morning. We ran out of toilet paper and hand soap midway through our stay. In the kitchen, we were missing paper towels to clean up after making a meal. There was one sponge under the sink that leaked black water when we tried to use it. It looked more like an apartment cleaning sponge than a dish sponge - a little gross.
I asked the host about paper towels and we eventually got some two days later. When I mentioned the toilet paper, he referred me to somebody else to ask (the super, who wasn’t around when we got back - because we were out exploring and got back late at night). At this point, I didn’t even bother asking about anything else. I ended up buying it all myself - TP, sponges, shower stuff. Also soap for the laundry, which is not included. None of this was expensive, but it took valuable time out of what was supposed to be our vacation. I’m not a wasteful person and understand wanting to use up all of a bottle before opening a new one, but there’s just no reason to not leave extras under the sink when you know a guest is staying for a week.