Mr. Kemal seemed to be very nice and hospitable at first, but then a lot of bad things happened. Turns out he has cameras set up all over the house and he’s observing everybody. He has very strange house rules:
- you’re not allowed to speak in the evening or else he texts you and tells you to shut up.
- you’re not allowed to be taken care of by friends even when you’re feeling unwell.
My friend was feeling sick and had fever and while I was busy at a business meeting Mr. Kemal was harassing him because somebody escorted my friend home and made him some tea. Then he was calling me and threatening me via Whats-App that he will remove my friend from the accommodation. I told him it was all a misunderstanding, but he wouldn’t listen and then told Airbnb that I will be removed as well if my friend wouldn’t leave the listing. Lo and behold the next day he cancelled our trip even though we only stayed 4 nights out of 14! He didn’t even give us our money back. I think this was an orchestrated scam to make a quick buck. Luckily Airbnb support was nice enough to give us 200$ as a compensation.
Other negatives:
- hot water was only running for maximum 30-60 seconds. We had to constantly run all the way to the boiler to restart it, but that didn’t help and Mr. Kemal only called the repair service after 3 days (the day he decided to kick us out)
- bad internet connection
- dirty dishes, I had to wash them because they were sticking
- bad smell, the place smelled like an old folks home and was very dusty
- super thin walls, I could here the neighbors burping loudly
- no privacy in a private apartment! ( for almost 700€)
- cameras everywhere, made us feel unsafe
- We had to buy our own toilet paper
- We had to buy our own dish soap
- we had to close every door twice, it was unnecessary and we only had one key, therefore we always had to wait for each other to arrive home, why doesn’t Mr. Kemal at least install a key box like every normal Airbnb?
Overall bad experience, didn’t feel like home and was disrespected by the host, he even called my satan. Was also threatened that he will ban me from the platform. Please avoid this place.