Sheng and Dido’s place couldn’t be any further from the ideal situation if you tried. The apartment is located on the ground floor of a government tenement building that is currently covered in scaffolding and constantly surrounded by workers. When we went to get the key from the lock up (which was located on another block so as not to alert anyone to the Airbnb’s existence) one of the residents told us it was VERY much against the rules to be running an Airbnb out of these blocks and frankly, it made me disgusted to think there are people within the city who would kill for a safe place to House their family- such as Sheng and Dido’s place. That aside, the rooms had no locks on the doors so we felt extremely uncomfortable leaving our belongings there! The bathrooms were average and the kitchens amenities were in desperate need of replacing.
We were awoken in the morning to the sound of scaffolding being put up by workers directly outside our room at around 8am and as if this wasn’t all bad enough- the room itself was expensive for a cheaply converted living room. There was absolutely no way of knowing any of these things from the listing or the photos provided which were conveniently of the inside of the room. I think it’s fair to say that S&D‘s Airbnb is grossly misleading, and I wouldn’t recommend anyone to stay there.