This airbnb experience was by far the most disappointing my girlfriend and me have ever had. It is also the reason why we most likely will not book through airbnb again.
First of all, the positive sides, that unfortunately by far don't outweigh the negative ones. The apartment looks taken care of and is clean (as depicted). The building it is part of is located in walking distance to the center of Valencia.
Now, the one thing that greatly reduced the quality of our whole vacation - noise. From when we arrived on the first day and wanted to rest in the afternoon as we woke up very early for our flight, until even the last fourth morning of our vacation, there was ear deafening drilling and hammering noise, which started at 8 in the morning until 8 in the evening. We could not sleep in, we could not have breakfast and get ready for the day, and we could also not rest in the afternoon without being woken up or disturbed by the construction noise. When contacted, our host said that it is noise from a neighbour and that it is something that could happen to everyone and that she can't influence. The host offered to let us move for the last two days and reimburse us for those days, but we did not want to deal with additional stress, high costs of booking so late and uncertainty of receiving our money back.
Apart from that, we were not welcomed by the host but by the cleaning lady. She was very friendly, but could not understand any English to the degree that we needed to use Google translate to even ask for the time we could enter the apartment. Naturally, she could also not explain us anything about the apartment or the surrounding area due to the language barrier. The WiFi was also not working the day we arrived. After contacting the host, this was fixed within a few hours. Still more unexpected and unnecessary hassle. On the second day, the shower suddenly started overflowing and the drain seemed clogged. We did not contact the host anymore about this as we were fed up and drained by all the issues.
All in all, we are very disappointed and could not relax in the apartment. Yes, the host tried her best to accommodate us once we told her about issues. She also came by and gave us a bottle of wine and some chocolate, which of course is a nice gesture. However, this did not make up for the problems we experienced. We did not go on holiday to constantly have to text back and forth to solve problems and get woken up by drilling every morning. We would not recommend booking this apartment any time soon, as the construction went for four days straight from 8am until 9pm and does not seem to stop any time soon.