The host was dishonest, got someone else to open the flat for us and tried to extort 50 Euros over the telephone for 'late check-in' within a couple of minutes of walking into the flat, because he said it was in his 'rules'. No such rules existed when we booked but the host emailed us amended rules when we protested. We emailed him what we had. The host also left a book with information and his house rules, no such rule could be found anywhere in this either. This made us feel vulnerable, we had paid for the apartment but the host was dishonest, we were in his apartment and in a foreign country! We did offer to leave and would have gladly done so had he agreed to refund us.

We did not feel safe to leave our valuables in the apartment and quite rightly because someone let themselves in and switched off the fan/AC when we went to the café for a short while to eat.

The apartment was stuffy and the smell was suffocating and awful as we walked in. The AC was not working properly, the floors were sticky and dirty, the bathroom was disgusting, hairs on the floor, urine on the toilet seat and a dirty shower, although there were a few small bottles of complimentary shower gels and shampoos and a couple of white hotel slippers left.

Bedroom door would not close properly. There were mosquitoes and drain flies all over the flat. The downstairs toilet was rocking. The sofa bed was disgustingly dirty, the pillows were badly stained and unusable. The brown bedding was dirty. But the host did leave a basket of goodies, a few drinks in the fridge, washing up liquid, and a couple of toilet rolls.

The location of the apartment is good and close to the public transport if you are able bodied as you have to go up and down steep slopes. So not suitable for people with young children, the disabled, people with ill health and the elderly.

If you are prepared to clean the flat yourselves, get over feeling unsafe and vulnerable, put up with the dirty bedding, the smell/stuffiness, swat the mosquitoes and drain flies (commonly found in toilets in third world countries), and you are fit and able bodied to go up and down steep slopes then you should be OK! The photographs are misleading and we would give it a 0* rating.