I've stayed in countless Airbnb's over the last 9 years.
This is the first bad review I've ever left.
The TLDR version: cheap and nasty place which smells bad and is a joyless place to stay. The owners/hosts are just trying to maximise their yields.
The longer version:
I booked last minute and in a hurry so am grateful this apartment was free. I only stayed one night, thank god
The apartment is superficially clean, but there's an extremely bad smell - like some really nasty stuff was done in the apartment over a long period of time (probably by depressed guests) and it's now embedded into the furnishings and can't be gotten out. Various cheap air fresheners placed by the host around the space failed to mask this problem.
The space is as it seems in the pictures. However, there is no central heating. Just two portable Argos style heaters which are noisy and inadequate for the apartment.
The location is on a very busy main rd, which I knew in advance and is not a problem in itself, but the floor of the apartment shakes when large vehicles go past, which they do quite frequently, and it's pretty noisy.
The bed has a thin, worn and cheap mattress which sits on a poorly sprung cheap bed-frame. There's no a duvet cover, just two sheets, one either side of the duvet.
The building and common parts are shabby and have a slum landlord feel with most if not all the units being used as Airbnb.
My impression is the whole operation is run on the absolute cheap to maximise yield.
I hate to be negative and generally follow the rule that if I don't have anything good to say, I stay quiet. But honestly, in this case I really would feel sorry for anyone paying decent money and finding themselves in this apartment for any period of time.