We had an overall unpleasant stay at İlhan’s place. There are several points which made the stay a poor experience.
1. The neighbourhood is dirty, shabby and noisy. Walking around in the neighbourhood made us uncomfortable.
2. The sound insulation is poor. We could hear the kids screaming and neighbours playing music clearly. It was very disturbing.
3. The apartment does not match the description. The place is advertised with balconies. However, one of the balconies would be filthy: bird excrement all over the floor, and that it faces a very dirty and shabby building. The other balcony where the sea view picture was taken is not somewhere we would want to relax either, as it is very close to the opposite building and the pavement below.
4. The cleanliness was poor. The toilet brush was dirty and rusted. So was the shower. There was some weird plaster-like thing on the fire alarm on the bedroom ceiling.
5. A lot of details in the apartment were poor and neglected by the host. A lamp in the bathroom was broken, but it was simply glued together. The painting hanging in the bedroom room was of poor quality, and it was not even hung at the centre point. Instead of cleaning the sofa properly, a piece of black cloth was used to cover it so guests could pretend that it is clean.
6. Poor taste of interior design. This might be subjective, but the style was weird to us and we did not feel it was cosy at all. Some brick walls mixed with some white walls, wooden ceilings and weird lamps made a poor combination. It is not that type of cosy place people would actually live in.
Overall, we feel it It is overrated and overpriced (SEK 1200/USD 126 per night) for the poor experience. It was more like a hotel and without reception or service instead of an Airbnb experience.
Some good points I need to mention about İlhan: we moved out after the first of the three nights, and he refunded us for 2 nights after we wrote him.