This listing has both very good and very bad things going on.
Starting with the good stuff:
- Salah was extremely nice and available, super friendly host that ensured we had a good experience at his place. - He was understandable when our flight schedule changed and had to check in late, and allowed us to keep our luggage at his place the last day of our stay to allow us doing some visiting without bringing around our things.
- The location is good, close to metro/bar/supermarket. It's on top of a bar, but it doesn't get very noisy after midnight
Now the bad stuff:
- Bedroom furniture was very questionable at best. Old crappy bedside table with broken drawers, table on the terrace which seemed picked up from the trash one day before, chairs in very bad state
- Wall decorations consisted of paper articles about greek mythology and similar things, ammassed on one corner of the walls. There were holes for shelves which didn't exist
- The bathtub was dirty, the ceiling on the bathroom was peeling off in chunks, didn't get a good impression of the WC
- We weren't given towels, but got told that there's a drawer in the bathroom from which we could take them, first comes first served basis. This is a minor issue tho
- There was a second bathroom, which we were told is better not to use. Took a quick look for us to agree and not enter in it during our stay
Finally, what was ok or not a problem for us:
- Kitchen looked ok, bed mattress was not a big issue, the bedroom desk and wardrobe looked fine
Last remark, when we arrived we were told that the fan was broken and we were supposed to get a new one (very hot week in Valencia), but took two days for Salah to get us one after our multiple requests
What seemed to me is that Salah and his roomates were sharing the entire place, all but him are not currently there (probably due to covid issues), and he is listing their rooms on airbnb to get some money out of empty rooms (and I guess paying the rent for it). This explains the weird wall decorations and the general state of the room/bathroom (said from two ex uni students, we can understand)
I discussed with my fiancé and we both agree that with a small effort Salah could greatly improve the visitor's experience, and we both hope he takes the necessary steps! To put it short, great host, bad location. Some very easy fixes would be to ditch the bad furniture and get some cheap ikea stuff!