This has been a very challenging Airbnb experience for us. Which was quite dissapointing in all honesty.
Pros:
- The inside of the apartment itself is exactly as described.
- The apartment is situated above a strip mall, which is convenient, there is a Starbucks and supermarket right there so that’s great.
- The apartment itself is centrally located.
- The host was very responsive and available to answer our questions where they could which was very nice.
Cons:
- while the apartment is as we expected, the apartment building is far from that.. The apartment building itself is very hard to find, and the address is not very clear because the building itself doesn’t have a building number, which made it quite difficult for deliveries..
- The apartment is situated in a huge building which surrounds an open mall, for a visual, imagine a huge open parking lot complex - there was a big dissonance by the appearance and lovely ambiance of the apartment itself and the state of the building, one which I wish someone alerted me to because this wasn’t depicted in the listing.
- Starting on day three of our month long stay, we were woken up by the sounds of major construction done on the apartment right upstairs. This went on almost daily, Mon-Friday from 8am-6pm, i wished someone would have let me know, being that life is on zoom now a-days, and we obviously work from home.. I understood the apartment hosts weren’t aware this was going on but still this made everything more aggravating and complicated. The host Nick offered to go speak to them to see if they can arrange the drilling around times we aren’t in (we were always in due to the global pandemic)
- The apartment fluctuated in temperature immensely. There is no AC as in many European homes which made it hard to cool, and the skylight made a cookery out of the living room. But the central heating worked very nicely.
- The shower is hard to operate (I know this was mentioned in a previous comment), its very touch sensitive so do be aware.
All this is to say that in my opinion the apartment though lovely, was not worth the premium price we payed for it. For what we paid, I expected top notch- this is not what we got.