Host was friendly and easy to reach and check-in was good. Host provided lots of travel guides and the apartment was tidy. The curtains were good and shut out a lot of light during the day without having to put the shutters down.
The biggest problem was that the apartment was full of cockroaches and over the course of my 2 week stay, I had to kill 11 of them, some of which were crawling up the sides of the bed. When I informed the host, she told me the apartment was impeccably clean and any cockroaches found were there because it had been raining that month, rather than because the apartment or building were poorly-kept.
The window by the bed won't close properly so all the noise from the street gets in and the shutter on that same window doesn't work either. The neighbours above the apartment are incredibly noisy and had several screaming matches, which were easy to overhear as the walls and ceiling were paper-thin. I love animals but because the window doesn't shut properly and seal out noise, I could hear someone's bird whistling every minute or two all through my stay.
The fridge was another issue: the dial inside was set to 3 when I arrived but when I left ice-cream in the freezer compartment (which is NOT air-tight and has gaps in it leading to the rest of the fridge) it melted, leading me to turn the dial to 4 which caused everything in the fridge to freeze. I had to throw out a lot of food because of this. I told the host and she told me that the temperature was set properly when she left the apartment and blamed me for the fridge not working, saying that I shouldn't have touched the dial.
There was a bulge in the floorboards near the bed and it was easy to trip over and would make noise whenever stepped on. The kettle was full of limescale. The sofa-bed was unusable as you could feel the frame sticking up out of it. The pictures don't clearly show that the listing is only half of an apartment, the other being the host's, and with the walls being so thin, there's little privacy.
I chose this listing because it had a huge amount of positive reviews and around 4.5 stars; I just stayed here (11th to 25th April 2022) and can't say I agree with the reviews at all - it wasn't worth the money I paid for it.