Whilst Ali was an extremely attentive and helpful host, the flat did not meet our basic standards. We are both experienced travellers and there is a level of cleanliness that should be expected that simply wasn't met. There was dust all over the apartment, the shower was broke and there was mould in all the crevices of the tiles. The cooling system whilst effective would leak constantly and we were only left with a old medium sized Starbucks cup which quickly overfilled leading us to have to use something else to gather the water. As you cannot drink from the taps "clean" water was provided, however we discovered upon inspection that it was full of black specks and dirt leaving it undrinkable. We got the feeling that the flat hadn't been cleaned properly since the last person had been there.
As the apartment is on the ground floor expect lots of noise, two nights we had men talking outside our window into the early hours of the morning. Overall we found the apartment to unclean, the lighting is depressing and there is no natural light.
On one occasion, which caused to spend our last night elsewhere, we were woken by violent shouting and banging on the window right next to the bed. This was intimidating and frightening for us especially as the individual kept ringing the doorbell also. We were given no information as to how to use it however we did witness through the small screen Ali speaking to her from his flat upstairs and without questioning her intentions let her in when she told him that she was looking for a friend. She then proceeded to our apartment door and started banging and shouting once again. As we were afraid we didn't open the door. We then had to call Ali to come downstairs to see what the situation was, it turned out that the individual had thought that her boyfriend was in the apartment. We understand these things can happen and it is not Ali's fault, however what made us feel deeply unsafe and what we can't forgive is that he let her in.
A week later we had to return as we had left an item at the apartment and came to pick it up from Ali. Upon entering the building again we heard from the same apartment we heard violent screaming and shouting, loud bangs and cries. We told Ali we were concerned as we gathered it was a couple and it sounded as if there was violence occurring. We were concerned with Ali's response to this as the correct course of action would be to be aware of what is occurring in his own property.
We understand that we had bad luck in the apartment with the things we experienced. Regardless the apartment is not up to the standard that we expect.
Ali is a good host but we would not recommend this apartment to anyone reading this.