We spent two days for a mini break in Har's place. Unfortunately, it was very disappointing and ended up being concerning.
We arrived to find an older, quirky place, which seemed fine. The blanket on the bed was old and the some other things like the cutlery, and lights etc seemed a little old fashioned.
Upon a little deeper inspection though, we found some worrying things that ended with a mouse being no more than 2 feet from my face.
The simple thing you require from an aIrbnb, (cleanliness) was very poor. Examples of this were a reddish stain on the duvet, possibly blood, but We couldn't tell for sure. Rips in the sheet, a toaster and microwave that were not cleaned and had food and stains on them, a kitchen sink that had no running water, a bathroom with black dots all over the painted wall (possibly mold, but again cannot be 100% sure) and a shower that if you stayed too long in your feet would become immersed in ankle deep water. A gentleman lives upstairs who did not cause us any issues, but the wooden floors mean anytime he moves it is clearly audible.
We are not the complaining type, and made do with what we had simply because we spent most of out time out of the room.
Late on the 2nd night we missed dinner so bought some food to eat back at the apartment. I left the empty sandwich and granola wrappers on the table next to me as we watched a late night movie (we come from NYC so were a little jet-lagged). I heard a rustling and when I turned my head a mouse was investigating the empty wrappers looking for a scrap. This obviously freaked us out, and we packed our stuff there and then. We tried to find a different place to stay but at 1am this would have proved futile so we tried to get whatever rest we could (my partner slept on a chair) and left hastily the next morning.
I messaged Har at around 12.45am. He responded later that morning to apologize for the inconvenience and that Amsterdam had a mouse problem that was proving difficult to deal with.
I took pictures of everything I have written about but this review page does not give me the option to upload them.
I would advise against staying here unless there is a dramatic deep clean and replacement of old fixtures and amenities.