The apartment was nice and has a good location - not too far from the city and easy to take a bus near the apartment. Gulay was also quick to communicate back when we had question for her which was appreciated. She had an extra person who was co-hosting which we could contact as well. Although we must also admit that some “smaller” things were not working (and we informed the hosts about this). The fan for upstairs bedroom was broken, so our friend had to sleep in uncomfortable heat some nights. The Wi-Fi was lacking an entire day. We asked if possible to get an extra key (cause we were 3 people living there), which we were informed was possible. The co-host would bring the key and also check upon the things that wasn’t working, but he didn’t show.
The biggest issues though was bedbugs in one of the rooms. We informed the host about this and the host indirectly accused us for bringing them to the apartment. This was not possible since bedbugs lives in the apartment/furnitures beforehand. Our friend got bidden by them and had marks and rashes all over her body and the room
Was inhabitable. I had to spend the most of my last night in Istanbul texting back an forth - which influenced our night.
The host arranged for a “pest Control” who had to spray the apartment (and our clothes) the day after. We was told that we couldn’t be in the apartment - we were rushed out the apartment 10 in the morning and we couldn’t get home until 18:00… this made our last day very stressful and uncomfortable. We got home, and there was still bedbugs in her bed, so she had to sleep on the couch.
In the end it felt like the hosts just wanted us out of the apartment and only texted us to make sure that we had checked out in time