The apartment needs renovation + the host will try to charge you for pre-existing damages.
Pros: the apartment is well equipped, well decorated, and the location is very central.
Cons: very loud street especially at night. The apartment was handed to us dirty and drenched in heavy smoke smell. We had to clean and wash everything twice and still we had to flip the mattress and sleep on its wrong side as it was dirty and smelled very unhygienic.
Things kept falling apart because they’re too old (shower door was rusty and had to be pushed really hard to be closed, buzzing a/c, plastic chairs that crack out of normal usage, wifi is weak, no change for sheets, etc).
Food can’t be safely stored in the fridge because its gaskets are weak, and we found loads of ants crawling in. The kitchen area is indeed pestered by ants and there is mold growing on the bedroom walls.
Whenever we reported any of these issues, the host seemed uninterested and did not do anything to fix the problems.
On top of all this, at the end of our staying the host tried to charge us for all the damages we previously reported. Unfortunately, I can’t recommend this place.