The location of this spacious, correctly furnished ground-floor studio (but not a loft) is excellent and it would be highly recommended except for a number of minor defaults which, however, summed together became rather annoying. Perhaps it’s the result of this Airbnb being ‘managed’ by an agency, not the owner. We are relatively frequent Airbnb users and not accustomed to writing negative reviews – when we’re not impressed, but not disappointed, we won’t write one at all. Here are the (easy to fix) things that bothered us:
The only working lights in the apartment were 3 ceiling spots – the only bedside lamp was a base without a bulb. We bought a bulb in order to be able to read in bed.
There are no curtains on the lowest street level window which means that, unless you close the exterior shutters, people passing can see right in. We hate closing off outside light with shutters (as suggested by the owner).
No (reasonable) way to make a cup of tea or coffee. Even though a hot water boiler is not listed in the announce (owner’s response) this is the first Airbnb (remember the second B is for breakfast) that didn’t have this minimum. When my wife got out a saucepan to boil water it had soup residues and had to be cleaned before use. While we’re in the kitchen, there was not one spoon to be found – had to eat our yogurt with forks.
There is a permanent strange musty smell coming from the bathroom. This might be solved by a more thorough cleaning of the floor, etc. It would also be nice to have a small trash can in the bathroom. Note that the cleaning fee is $100.
Finally, setting up the TV took a moment, largely because the batteries in the decoder telecommand were dead (solved by changing them with the stereo control’s). And to cap it off, the TV decoder stopped working in the middle of a broadcast (went into a permanent re-boot loop then stopped completely).
Again, all this is a pity since easily (and cheaply) solved if someone cared, and the apartment itself is nice and well located.