Let me start by saying that we have stayed in countless AirBnBs and have NEVER LEFT ONE EARLY UNTIL THIS. We also generally try to give honest but kind reviews. So let’s start with the good.
Pros: The apartment was spotlessly clean and the hostess kind and punctual. The kitchen, bathroom and terrace are also very cute and functional, except there’s no freezer, and the location is nice and close to many sights and good restaurants, as well as the building is well secured.
CONS: Although the apartment is pretty on the surface, once trying to stay there you will quickly realize that each piece (couch, bed, pillows, coffee pot, etc) is very low end and thus very uncomfortable. But there are also safety issues that really need attention. There isn’t a bedroom, just a low ceiling loft with the bathroom downstairs from the loft. The stairs wrap a dark corner and desperately need a hand rail for safety when traversing, particularly at night, and the rather substantial shelf near the bottom of the stairs is placed just where a person’s head when falling would hit a sharp corner, making it quite dangerous. There are also low ceiling beams that I hit my head on quite hard twice, and I’m only 5’-7”, oh and the ceiling light did not work. The upstairs loft needs larger bedside tables to place items like phone and charger, and a folding stand to place open luggage (luggage had to be opened on the floor), and the flat pillows are terrible, frankly the worst pillows I have ever encountered… so bad I grabbed clothes to put my head on, and this could be fixed so easily. The bed is like a board and although it seems low to the floor, the end tables are so low and tiny (they are cute little tree trunks) that you can’t get to them without rolling on your stomach. There is no remote for the A/C and thus no way to set it, and to plug in your phone you Jane to unplug the bedside lamps. The couch, although cute, is horribly uncomfortable, and the doors going to the adorable terrace scrape on the floor so hard that my wife couldn’t open them. But believe it or not, it was the downstairs bathroom and the nightly stair debacle, combined with an inability to sleep on the terrible bed and flat, thin, hard pillows that drove us away. Such a shame, as it is cute clean and has so much potential.