- the AC: as soon as we arrived we noticed that the AC was off, despite it being a very hot day, and the guy that welcomed us told us that there was a possibility that the AC would not work. Depsite of this, he didn't stop to check whether it was working or not, he just told us to test it ourselves. We tried to turn the AC on, and of cours eit was not working. We contacted the host and they told us that it was a difficult problem to solve, and that there was nothing to be done, but that there were some ventilators in the apartment instead (but ventilators are not that useful when it's 40°C outside). We understand that technical problems can happen, but it would have been better if the host would have been honest and told us about the situation before our arrival.
- cleanliness: at first glance everything seemed fine, but whoever cleaned the apartment didn't do a good job at all. The floor was full of crumbles, there were hair in the wc and in the kitchen cabinets, the towels were inside some plastic bags (as if they were brand new) but we're actually full of stains.
- the guy that let us into the apartment gave us very little practical information: we had no idea about how to sort the waste and where to throw the garbage, we were not sure how to start the dishwasher (which, by the way, we could not use anyway because there were no dishwasher tablets)... Moreover, the first night we were there the electricity in our apartment went off, and we didn't have the key to access the control panel to put it back on (we had to ask the neighbours for help)
- the sofa bed!! According to the description, this apartment was supposed to be for 8 people, with three queen beds and one sofa bed. We were a group of 7, and once we opened the sofa bed (and ones again nobody showed us how to do that) we found out that it was not a sofa bed at all: there was no mattress, and we were supposed to sleep on the back of the sofa cushions. On the other hand there was an air mattress, on which one of us had to sleep for 4 nights. Again, the problem is that there is a lack of transparency: if the description says that there is a sofa bed it is unacceptable to sleep on an inflatable mattress, this is not at all what we paid for.
- finally, some good notes: the apartment is in a very central location, you can go almost everywhere by foot and there are both a bus stop and a metro stop nearby. However, we didn't feel very safe in the area, and there was a constant smell of piss (and worse) around the entrance. Another good thing was that the kitchen was very well equipped, but the stove display was not working very well.