The accommodations would have been really nice if I was staying with a friend, but were disappointing for an Airbnb.
The room is now less spartan than in the photos: there's a table, chair, and rug. I moved the chair to the bedside as a makeshift nightstand, so I had somewhere to charge my phone. There's a patio door that opens to a courtyard that I'd use when I needed fresh air. You can hear the neighbors (even with the doors closed) but not enough to be bothersome.
The bathroom's only semi private: it's the communal bathroom in a 2 bedroom. The hostess has her own private bathroom, but if she has friends over, they'll use yours.
There were three main disappointments for me: The WiFi was quite bad. I couldn't get my Nintendo to play an online match, although my iPad could usually cobble together enough signal to make Netflix watchable. The water pressure in the shower wasn't good either. Finally, the towels really need to be replaced. They're old and hard. I found a cheap microfiber beach towel that looked like it had been there a while. Wasn't quite clean, but at least it was softer. (The kitchen sink had bits of food left in it, though that didn't bother me much as I only used the kitchen to make tea.)
I'd never stayed in a shared Airbnb before. The hostess is really friendly. She'd say hi whenever we crossed paths, and was very responsive to text messages. The pandemic was surging while I was there, so I kept to myself more than I otherwise might, but I appreciated her kindness. When I arrived, the bathroom sink was slow and there was no soap in the shower. She immediately brought me soap, and had poured Drano in the sink that afternoon.
One of the difficulties of Airbnb is leaving honest reviews for nice people, which is even harder when you see them every morning. If I was crashing with a friend, I'd be happy to have a private bed, and I'd look the other way about the shower and the WiFi. However, for $100 per night, those things should be remedied. (There's probably not much to be done about the water pressure, but the towels are an easy fix.)
It's a shared apartment, and it felt like it: a little dark, a little dirty, but with a flatmate who felt like a friend.