We stayed here from Dec2015, the price was listed as €1200 withOUT utilities. Alexander (the host) said he'd do €1500 including utilities, and that he'd do a discount if we stayed longer term. Not only he didn't give a discount, he raised the price towards the end even though we stayed for 10.5 months till Sept2016! He also asked that we pay for HIS Airbnb fees which added to our fees to about €1750/m.

Communication wasn't easy, he would even hang up on Airbnb saying he only speaks Russian! Each time Airbnb had to get a Russian speaking agent to communicate with him. During our entire stay Alex was in Russia and the lady who checked us in was out of town too, which wasn't comforting when we ran into many problems here.

As for the apartment itself, we really loved the design, comfy king-size bed, the big space and the kitchen. We had to buy a lot of things for kitchen, as it was too basic, which we later took with us. The neighbourhood is quite nice, close to restaurants and metro. However I do not recommend Alexander as a host since he was very harsh when issues came up during our stay.

Once he forgot to pay the Internet bill and we ended up without Internet for several days. Another time, there was construction going on in the next building and they cut our electricity cable by mistake! Alex was not very accommodating, until Airbnb offered to pay for our hotel for the several days we had no electricity in the flat. Later on, they started extensive construction in the building, with so much noise every day, drilling, hammering, dust everywhere, elevator not working, staircase in horrible shape, constant power and water outages, etc. We contacted Airbnb to see if they could compensate us, when they mentioned it to Alex he threatened to evict us as opposed to compensating for the inconvenience. Guests be aware Airbnb does NOT protect you in case the host wants to evict for ANY reason!!! We were in the midst of a very busy schedule and couldn't move, so we put up with it. Alex's attitude was threatening, which we did not appreciate. He was ok when things were fine, but as soon as there was an issue he'd become unaccommodating. He even threatened to evict us as Airbnb was processing his income, I mentioned to him that we had paid on time 100% and this had to do with Airbnb's system. His response:"It's your problem. You must ensure that the payment took place. I'm in Spain. Tomorrow will come to the apartment, to solve the problem about your eviction." I had to get Airbnb to call him and ensure everything was paid! Clearly he doesn't understand the Airbnb system.

There's noise coming from the bar downstairs on weekends, and be warned about the extensive construction still happening here. It's a shame such a beautiful apartment doesn't have a more pleasant host.