This is a tricky review for me to write. The communication with the host was excellent and I couldn’t fault the location of the property. However, upon arriving at the accommodation, the entrance to the stairs was already unlocked which made security a little unsettling. We headed into the apartment and were met with a very strong smell of bleach (reassuring it had been cleaned I guess) Bags were dropped off in rooms and we tried to close the very broken blinds in the bedroom which we were unable to do. As I sat on the bed it literally broke beneath me. I called the number on air bnb for Daniel and the line was dead (which I had read in other reviews) and so I called the numbers that were on the welcome pack. Only one person answered who stated she hadn’t work for the horrible man in two years (this made me very anxious.) I messaged the host instead and got a reply from an Elliot after a couple of hours who said he would arrange for someone to fix the bed. There was also a very broken tile in the bathroom (also stated in previous reviews) that I assumed would have been fixed before our visit. This made using the bathroom tricky as we were worried about cutting the bottom of our feet. The blinds in the lounge were also very broken.
We would have left and found somewhere else to stay but we had the theatre booked at 5pm and therefore didn’t have time to look for somewhere.
I received a message off Elliot saying the bed had been fixed which we were happy about at least. The following morning I tried to switch the tv on only to realise there were no batteries in it. Also, the bed broke again so I contacted Elliot yet again to come and fix it and went out and bought my own batteries.
I know people reading this will wonder why we didn’t find somewhere else to stay but we couldn’t afford to find somewhere else and we had things booked.
All in all I wouldn’t recommend staying here and am amazed by the positive reviews that I have read as these issues seem to have been going on a long while. The only saving grace was location and the fact Elliot was very helpful.