The good:
1. Excellent new kitchen, everyone about kitchen is 5 stars!
2. Living room is spacious and bright, it is a pleasure to relax there.
3. Location is not too bad, however you will have to take either taxi or underground to get to any popular destination
The bad:
1. Host didn’t meet us, instead there was her daughter (she said so). Didn’t show anything really and left. We had to figure out how to use heating ourselves which took some time.
2. TV has only spanish channels. Not the end of the world, but could do with some english channels too.
2. Bare in mind you will hear everything your neighbours do or say in other flats around (watching tv, talking, using toilet etc). This is defo not a soundproof flat at all!
3. Shower is full with water in 3 mins and then it will be overflowing to the floor. Really irritating, you have to wait for water to go away (which takes ages) to carry on. I believe shower needs to see a good plumber.
The ugly:
1. Smaller bedroom is really small. And it has one window that leads to ... lift shaft!!! Seriously, you open up a window (you can’t actually fully open it just maybe 15 cm) and you see lift shaft. I couldn’t believe it, honestly! Dear host please upload a photo of the view from this window. Your potential guests should be aware of that. Smell from that lift shaft is terrible (you can’t even imagine how terrible). Also any sort of insects or spiders could get into the flat from that lift shaft if you leave it open. Because of that there is no air circulation in that room and you will be out of air in 30 mins max, so you will have to sleep in living room, even sleeping with open door won’t help as that won’t create air circulation.
2. 10 days after we left we’ve received a message from host stating that we broke chord from blinds and we have to pay £150 because this is how much it costs to fix blinds chord (£150 for the chord, really? lol)... Well first of all, dear host when you contact your guests you should begin with something like “Hello” and finish your message with something like “Bye”. Simple rules of politeness! Secondly if something brakes in your flat (not maliciously) you are responsible to fix it and not your guests. For example if your boiler brakes down you don’t ask your guest to pay for it, you should fix it. The same applies to the chord from the blinds! But most importantly ask your guests if they were using those blinds before you blame them! Because in our case we didn’t use those blinds as we were using curtains!
Conclusion:
Host is rude and making unreasonable demands to pay for some broken items which we didn’t even use.
Flat is suitable for max 2 people as smaller bedroom is unusable.
My advise - stay away from this place and this host, too much trouble with both.