I’ve never written a negative review on Airbnb before, but the way this place was presented in the photos and the reality of it were quite different, so it’s worth mentioning. I’m still giving it 3 stars because I don’t feel right giving lower.
Let’s start with the positives: check in was easy, location is decent. Of course, the workers were nice enough and the bed worked for the couple of nights we stayed. It was directly next to the Trump mall and fairly close to the metro.
Here are negatives:
The doors here seem to have been retrofitted with new locks. In our case, the door looked like it had been kicked down and put back up. The secondary lock, the chain, was attached to a door frame, and the door frame was falling off, so it was useless and awkward.
The refrigerator was rusted and brown at the bottom, so I assume something happened here since the photos were taken because it’s white there.
Above the kitchen area was a large and gross looking hole. If people used the bathroom, it seemed to have a bad smell in this room.
When we arrived, the internet was just an open connection with no password. This isn’t exactly safe. Use a VPN. (Later, though, we were prompted to log in and had to visit the front desk for help.)
Also, it seemed the smoke detector in the room was covered with a plastic bag.
The wall paper was peeling, there were paint stains on the floor, it seems, or some kind of stains.
There was a big stain on the couch, as well as an armchair, and the one on the couch had an odd smell that reminded me of vinegar, but it was easy enough to ignore.
The closet was just in rough shape inside and looked not well maintained. Funnily enough, there is a phone on the end table in the bedroom and it just wasn’t hooked in at all. (I didn’t plan on making any calls, but this was just a little icing on the cake.)