Please do not be fooled by all of the clearly fake 5 star reviews like I was. The floor was very dirty and clearly not vacuumed or cleaned in any way at all. I vacuumed at first when I got in because I felt so dirty when I was still considering staying there (I left after an hour of debating whether or not to stay there and have my trip ruined by this horrible AirBnB).
The dishes and glasses were all dirty— the glasses were left out like the last guest left them on the rack and the cleaner did not put them away. The Airbnb description saying that there’s “Professional cleaning &disinfecting between bookings” is laughable as there is literally no chance that the space was cleaned before we entered. Also we tried to clean up and the only “cleaning product” available was bug spray. Not too useful for cleaning the dirty space but I suppose useful for the spiders and cobwebs we found in both bedrooms. The lights were so dim that I couldn’t see anything when entering the apartment. They seemed like they were broken or the wiring to them was just so old there wasn’t enough of a current to light up the hallway.
The window in one of the bedrooms would not close. Crumbs and huge stains all over the couch. The bathroom door handle was broken and if I was staying alone I would not have been able to get out (only handle on the outside of the bathroom). The tower bar was missing (noted in a earlier review by another guest as hanging from the wall, now it was completely gone).
A review noted the sliding doors from the living room to the bedroom was broken back in May— I assumed that I would be fixed three months later but it wasn’t. People in the living room could see straight into the bedroom without any solution to the issue.
The mattresses both felt like they were from 1960. One of the mattress’s springs were poking hard out of the mattress and would have been impossible to sleep on without having horrible back pain. The description also states “comfortable and good quality double beds”. I would assume the person writing the description has never set foot in the property based on what’s written.
While it may be out of the host’s control, the entry to the apartment was horribly dirty and stained and felt unsafe like the floor was going to collapse. The area out front seemed unsafe and there was a group of people hanging around the lockbox making it inaccessible for the first few minutes when I arrived. I’m usually pretty resilient to sketchy looking locales and have stayed in my fair share of questionable areas but this was a bridge too far. I wouldn’t have left even a pair of sunglasses in the car for fear of the windows being smashed in the dimly lit parking lot (we were welcomed to a car alarm down the street as we pulled in) and I certainly wouldn’t have wanted to leave any valuables in the Airbnb either.
There’s a lot of places to stay in Manchester. Why on earth would you fall for the misleading pictures, description and fake reviews like I did and stay here?