1. Worst check-in experience: The listing specifies that the host would meet us at the property to hand over the keys. That didn't happen. After days of silence, just a daybefore the check in, they told us that we would have to go pick the keys up from a key nest location far from the property. The key location had no transport connectivity. My wife and I were forced to take expensive Ubers to and fro to get the keys, lugging our bags across Stratford in the middle of a heat wave while our mothers waited outside the property.
2. Least communicative host:We had asked the host basic pointed questions about the check in days before the check in as is usual practice. They barely ever responded usually taking days before a single message. Even after the check in fiasco, they didn’t tell us that a fob opens the main access gate. That left us floundering in the heat for another 30 mins. This is very very different from our experience with any other airbnb listing in the past.
3. Noisy neighbourhood: This one isn't the host's fault but its important information for anyone looking for a peaceful stay.
Safe to say the railway tracks right in front of the apartment shortened our sleeping hours by half!
4. We were given one set of keys at check in. After our check out we were asked the location of a set of spare keys that were never given to us by the host.