TLDR: The apartment is indeed spacious and stylish, but it's missing the attention to detail necessary to feel luxurious. The host is incredibly rude, loud, and stingy with amenities.
There were a host small annoyances throughout the course of our 10-day stay (which I've listed at the bottom of the review), but overwhelmingly our two biggest difficulties were climate control and noise pollution (which unfortunately were intertwined concerned).
Climate Control - Two major problems
1) the way the AC is set up isn't sufficient for the apartment. The apartment is long and skinny, and there's one AC unit set up on one end of the apartment. So the front room get cold, but it's nearly impossible to permeate the AC through the rest of the apartment. Even if we were chilly in the living room; the bedroom would be sweltering.
2)The host rations the AC (despite the fact that it's included as an amenity in the listing). When we first arrived, he told us that the AC would only run for 8 hours at a time (reasonable), and if we let it run out of time and it had to auto shut off at the end of 8-hours, we wouldn't be able to turn it back on until he reset it (unreasonable). In actuality, it shut off evert 2-3 hours, and then wouldn't work until the host reset it, which often mean several hours waiting on the host without AC. After 2-3 days being repeatedly rude about how much AC we were using, he finally called an electrician to look into it, and sent us a text confirming that we were right; the AC was miscallibrated; and told us that moving forward we could use the AC as much as we wanted during the day, but now the AC would not work at night (because "it wasn't that hot out and we shouldn't need"AC if we have the windows open"). And that leads us to the noise concerns.
Noise Concerns
The building is LOUD. Part of that is just the fact that it's an old building with creaky stairs and an echo-y courtyard. The bedroom windows opens to the central courtyard, so (because we had to leave the windows open at night for climate control) we regularly heard neighbors coming home until 2 am, and then would be woken to neighbors leaving for work starting at about 5:30 am. During the day, there are also lots of children in the building who play on the stairs (running up an down, shrieking, laughing, singing, etc) - which is very loud even with the windows closed (so napping during the day to make up for the lack of sleep at night isn't an option).
Adding to the noise concerns, our host threw a raucous party on one of the last nights of our trip. The music was so loud that I thought there must be some weird, middle of the night concert happening in the plaza outside our window. We were woken up by the party noises around 1:00 am, complained twice in person and twice over text. The host refused to turn down the music, and was rude and aggressive in response to our requests. The noise didn't stop until after 3:00 am.
In short, we were uncomfortable and exhausted for the entire trip, and our host was rude and dismissive whenever we tried to ask him for reasonable accommodations. I wish we would have left early - which we discussed many times -- but I trusted Airbnb to responds to our concerns and work to make the problem right (we've been emailing customer service for over a week, and have yet to come to any level of reasonable resolution; apparently Airbnb should not be trusted to resolve issues; lesson learned)
Other minor annoyances
-The airbnb is missing many of the amenities promised in the listing (so shampoo, no conditioner, no soap, no salt, etc).
-the hairdryer is cheap and overheats easily, and can only be used for 5 minutes at a time
-the pillows are awful
-the towels are disgusting (stiff, scratchy, stained) and insufficient (1 hand towel for 2 people for 10 days) We ended up borrowing towels from my mother-in-law rather than use the towels provided
-the furniture, while stylish, is uncomfortable
-while the apartment looks stylish, it's in really bad shape. It looks like someone has punched holes in the artwork, and the fake wood floors are all peeling up exposing sharp edged. The host has ducktaped down a lot of the corners (classy), but there are still sharp edges you have to be careful around.
-the wifi doesn't consistently reach the back of the apartment
-the host acts in bad faith - in reviews, whenever people complain about the apartment, the hosts responds if, "if you had asked we would have fixed it." We did ask, repeatedly. In response, he was dismissive and didn't fix anything.
-The host lies - We complained to airbnb about the loud party the host threw. The host responded to airbnb saying that we threw multiple parties during the visit, and we were the only causing noise complaints. This is patently ridiculous. We had no guests. Most of our time in the apartment was spent trying (and failing) to get any kind of sleep. We never turned on the TVs; we used earbuds whenever we used our electronics. And we have multiple screenshots of our conversations with the host complaining about the AC and the noise; and there isn't a single text back from our host accusing us of making noise.
Don't give this man your money. The apartment isn't nearly as nice as it looks in the photos. Save yourself a headache, and stay someone else.