For myself and 3 other friends we had a very bad experience not only with the cleanliness of the apartment but also with the host himself.
I'll start with the positive things about the apartment ,
nice size living area. good TV options. amazing central heating and nice natural light during the day.
Im sure nobody expects to save money come on a trip and arrive to a DIRTY apartment where even the toilets, floors and worktops haven't been cleaned. You enter the door and 3 bags of dirty sheets are there to greet you. The roof top stairs are extremely dangerous even for sober young people. The 2 bedrooms offer very different experiences. The second bedroom had a very old and i would say broken mattress and caused us to wake up in pain and discomfort . Something which i cant say is the hosts fault but there is construction from 7.30 am which sounds like a couple having sex right next to your head. The host was extremely sensitive at first and promised to sort out the mess and told us to go and buy a mattress cover . but by day 3 we gave up hoping for a cleaner and cleaned the apartment by ourselves and ended up sleeping on a fold up bed ( NOT SOMETHING I WANT ON MY HOLIDAY ) .
As far as the location. You are located above some take away 'restaurants' not mentioned in the listing. on the boarder of a safe area. If you are a female without private transport I wouldn't recommend staying here as the walk to the train is through a alleyway and the locals aren't so friendly if you get what I mean. With all of this i was told by the host that he's wanting his superhost status and that he would offer to pay for our last meal if we wrote him a good review. I ended up taking this up with Airbnb. As a host myself in Tel Aviv i was constantly trying not to compare the two places and was even told by the host 'this isn't Tel Aviv' as though he was trying to make me feel that in London they don't have standards ...After many uncomfortable and awkward conversations with Mark we decided to go direct with our complaints to Airbnb who were very helpful..this is our honest review.