Would NOT recommend.
I’ll start with the smaller things. This place is not close to city center. The clever photography makes it look like you’re in some seaside town when really you’re in a somewhat unkempt apartment building, up a steep hill and overlooking a shipyard of sorts.
The towels were dry and crispy, the pillows were old and stained and the linens in the linen closet had spiders.
The sofa was dingy and had small cigarette burns, the place has an odd smell that the host tries to cover up with an obscene amount of incense.
Now the larger issue. This place is DIRTY. The first thing I noticed as we were walking up to the unit was the bedsheet hanging in the window as a curtain. Based on the listing photos I thought for sure we must have the wrong place. Nope. That same bedsheet hanging in the window was filthy. There was also duct tape all around the permitter of this same window. The walls in the smaller, second room, where the soiled bedsheet was, had dirty hand prints on the wall, above the bed. The second, larger or main bedroom had a bed that had clearly been slept in. I honestly could not believe my eyes. We pulled the dingy comforter back and saw blonde hair in the bed. The kitchen cabinets and stove were all dirty and honestly looked like they had not been wiped down in a long time. There was hair and kitchen debris along the side of the sink and the trash cans were disgusting. There were hand written instructions about cleaning off the counters after leaving which was hilarious considering the condition of the unit. In these instructions there were no usual details that hosts generally leave. A good thing to note would have been the sensitivity of the drain component in the shower which will close and cause the shower to flood.
Overall, this felt like a unit that this person lives in and takes minimal care of, and my gut tells me that the glowing reviews this host has are from friends.
The host tried to blame the condition of the unit on a cleaning service but there is absolutely no way. I’ve traveled quite a bit and have used Airbnb often. I know what it looks like when a professional service is used
and this was not it.