After booking I actually didn’t want to stay anymore after the host asked me what I would be doing in the apartment and told me that I would be forbidden from having anyone over at the apartment to visit me. He told me he charges 50£ per person and I objected and asked him to cancel… he wouldn’t. We somehow came to an understanding that I could have up to 5 people drop by for short visits during certain hours. Personally this made me feel extremely uncomfortable and that I was being treated like a kid.
Make sure you have a wifi connect or take the login info with you to check in because you’ll only find the key after watching a video. Not all travellers have data plans when they arrive from abroad. I think the apartment itself was nice, clean and practical, but it’s actually quite small compared to the wide angle photos and the floor boards are creaky and seem raised/buckled (perhaps due to previous water damage). I had no problem with playing music using Alexa, but gave up on the projector system for watching TV. Firstly, the remote was missing but once found behind the cabinet, the sound still didn’t work. Instructions about the projector on Airbnb were not up to date either, which is why I contacted the host for help since In the instruction I was supposed to be looking for a laptop in the bedroom that didn’t exist. The host was polite but couldn’t help me for trouble shooting. He told me to look at a guide book which had no references to the technology in the apartment and basically asked me if the power was “on” which gave me the impression that he thought I was an idiot. I ended up just watching Netflix on my own laptop and thought deeply about how it definitely wasn’t worth what I paid. I think that the experience could have gone a different way, but it was definitely tainted by the initial communication that made me feel uncomfortable about my privacy and freedom while I was staying there. The host refused to cancel and if I wasn’t going to lose money, I would have preferred going elsewhere.