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Stayed in this flat for 6 nights as a group of 7. The location of the flat is great. The living room/dinning area was lovely and had a nice set up which the group enjoyed. It was nice to have a dryer as well as a washing machine available. The pull out sofa is a single and was surprisingly comfortable. Host was very responsive for the most part and accommodating in allowing us to keep our luggage in the apartment until 1pm on day of check-out while it was being cleaned for next guests.
However a number of issues reared it’s head which made the stay not so pleasant and the group as a whole rated the property a 2 star (but I decided to up it and give it a 3 star instead).
- In order to access the twin room and the shower room, you must past through the double room and vice versa, so no privacy for people staying in these rooms. Host should include the apartment layout in the Airbnb images so people know upfront that this is the layout. I honestly wouldn’t have booked the place if I had known.
- The twin room is quite small and doesn’t have AC (it has a fan) so gets very hot. In addition, it has zero storage - just the twin beds and the fans so nowhere to hang clothes.
- The master room with the en-suite and the double rooms both have AC, but both rooms have a flimsy storage rack for clothes that felt like it would collapse if you attempted to put anything on it.
- Both bathrooms are out of date and in real need for a refresh. Water temperature was temperental - going from hot to cold then cold to hot and back again. Also, my cousin (24) got locked in the toilet for 10 mins and we couldn’t get him out - his mum was close to breaking down the door to save her baby.
- Basic amenities were missing and had to be requested. We literally had empty hand wash and dish soap bottles - would have thought this would be restocked as standard. The ironing board in the double room looked really sorry for itself.
- The oven in the kitchen didn’t work so we couldn’t cook much which was the whole purpose of getting an Airbnb rather than a hotel. There were no drinking glasses nor wine glasses, just Turkish tea/coffee cups so we had to use the Turkish tea cups to drink wine and fizzy beverages. There was insufficient cooking and eating utensils to accommodate 7 people and where it did exist, they were oddly mismatch.
- Only one set of keys provided for a group of 7, meaning when the group split up we had to wait outside the apartment for each other. I requested another set of keys be delivered to the hotel across the street where we collected the first set but keys weren’t forthcoming in the end.