* Avoid to book with Alexandru, will try to accuse of none sense. He's a ghost airbnb host.
* If it wasn't for the insulting host, I would've given four stars for the flat itself, will precise at the end. I had to EDIT my rate after what happened.
Let me walk you through what happened to me!
Alexandru tried to SCAM us of 234$ - after leaving the flat, he accused us and requested an exorbitant amount of money (noting that we already paid over 1K for 7 days). Without even messaging me personnally first or answering my own message about my complaints and I was very nice with him. I told him I wouldn't leave a bad review but he has never answered me and asked airbnb for my money.
Alexandru falsely accused us of : smoking inside the appartment, leaving butts of cigarrets IN the apartment and making the place smell like cigs ; I DON'T SMOKE!
He accused us of leaving the apartment messy and having to get a SECOND cleaning compagny to clean, and having to buy desodorisant for the flat. It's a super small studio, how can you hire a second cleaning compagny only to dust out the floor? How do you ask 200$ to buy perfume when there's some WE bought and left in the flat? We weren't there most of the time!
We put all our garbage in bags, and as precised on his airbnb rules we did not need to take the trash outside, just to clean and the cleaners would do the rest.
We had NO CLEANING PRODUCTS, NO TOILET PAPER, NO BROOM. We had to BUY our toilet paper and our hand paper.. and the laundry detergent. Note that we left them in the flat for the next renters, and he's asking US to pay more!
(Airbnb declined his askings)
We arrived around 11 am, the check in was at 4 PM - We were left outside for 1h, with our expensive brand luggage, in a high criminal rated neighbourhood. After having to push the host a bit, he let us in early which we were grateful for. We had to run around with those luggages just to get the key from a sketchy shop down the street.
If you look in a part of the kitchen, hidden between the dish washer and the other drawers there will be very rusty ustensils hidden there.
Neighbours party all times of day and night high on who knows what, but i'm a nightlife worker so I was able to ignore them and sleep.
Good point:
I wasn't going to make a bad review and tell everybody all of this , because I enjoyed my stay for the other part before he tried to scam me. The bed is comfy and there's good wifi and a kitchen (Lol) which was all I needed. The washing machine works, you still have to buy the detergent. The toilet is clean and nice, but you have to buy toilet paper. The fact that he let me in early was very nice and he was responsive to my questions. The flat is close to an underground station and not far from city center. If you are more than one person, with a man, the neighbourhood is ok.
Alexandru is a ghost host who probably doesn't even live in london. Never been this insulted. Hopefully it doesn't happen to anybody else.