I stayed at René‘s apartment for 4 months and I have very mixed feelings about it. While the photos are accurate, the apartment is extremely clean, the location is convenient for reaching the UN premises, I would not stay here again.
Here is why I wouldn’t recommend anyone to stay at this apartment:
1. Undisclosed, active camera in the shared living room. Not only is this a clear breach of Airbnb policy, but it also made me feel very unsafe and even cut my stay short.
2. The listing conveniently forgot to mention that two dudes come to the apartment everyday for several hours to „work“ there, at the desk in the shared living room. (This also means you can’t use the desk to work, and you would have to use the kitchen table with no power outlet nearby). While the dudes were nice, it was just super weird not knowing about this before and also essentially having four instead of just two roommates.
3. The other two roommates are two middle-aged women sharing a room, who are very set in their ways and living with them, I felt like I was intruding in their personal space. One of them was quite rude and sometimes didn’t even greet me when I entered a room and also just generally ignored me. Extremely uncomfortable. She was also VERY particular about cleaning and would regularly vacuum at 8.30 am on a Saturday.
4. Other peculiarities about them: one of them smokes on the balcony, despite the listing saying it’s non-smoking. Often the smoke would drift into the apartment. To mask the smell she would then light scented candles, incense sticks or spray room spray, which mixed unpleasantly with the smell of smoke. The other one would run the washing machine EVERY day, making you compete and scheme to be able to do your laundry.
5. The room is extremely bare. There was literally just a bed in there. They gave me an old ruddy livingroom table to at least store some things on there, but it just wasn’t very homey.
If none of this bothers you, go ahead and book it. Having said that, there are way cheaper and better rooms available in Geneva if you have time to look for them. Overall, the apartment itself is fine but the experience was just not great.