This Airbnb was a mixed bag for us. While it has many excellent advantages, I will list what we perceived to be the pros and cons:

Location – Location is outstanding and would be the #1 reason to stay in this apartment. Area is located close to many high end shops, lovely cafes, restaurants, the Metro, etc. Very easy to walk almost anywhere in the city within 15-20 minutes.

Size of the apartment – this apartment is excellent for large groups. There are 5 bedrooms. 3 of the bedrooms have double/queen beds in them, 1 bedroom has 3 single beds along with a balcony, and the last bedroom has 4 single beds. There are 2 full bathrooms (sink, toilet, shower), 2 half baths – one of which has a toilet/sink and the other has a shower/sink. Plenty of room to spread out as there is a living room area as well, plus a very nice kitchen with most amenities ie, coffee maker, water kettle, stove, fridge, utensils, etc.

It is very important to note also, that our first few showers turned cold very quickly. There is a water heater/heat control in one of the kitchen cabinets – once we turned up the water heater several notches, we enjoyed hot showers the rest of the week. It was a little odd that knowing there were guests staying in the Airbnb, the landlord did not turn on the hot water or show us where this was.

Large closets in 3 of the bedrooms. A washer and drying rack for use.

The beds were very comfortable, although bedding felt thin.

The landlord himself is very responsive as we had several issues which he attended to almost immediately. His response time was very much appreciated!

Apartment was clean and ready to welcome us upon our arrival.

Price point is extremely reasonable.

Cons:

The apartment is in need of some upgrades/TLC. For example, in the kitchen, there is bottom molding just coming off, some of the door handles were broken, one of the beds is broken, the linens and towels were thin and not very nice. The toilet in one of the bathrooms worked intermittently; after several complaints, he finally replaced the inside workings.

Wifi went out almost daily; we had to contact landlord in order to reset it.

We noticed some ants in one of the bathrooms into one of the bedrooms. Landlord sent someone almost immediately to rectify this issue.
The landlord charges an extra “tax” per person staying in the unit. This rubbed us the wrong way as he wanted to collect this “tax” in cash and insisted on collecting it before we had even had time to drop our bags and settle in for a minute.