Vincent’s place was very nice. The best part of the stay was the location, right in the center of the old quarter of the city. Very convenient and fun.
My only negative experience was due to the fact that the key to the apartment is kept in a lockbox on the street. One of the requirements is that the visitor return it upon leaving their stay. This wasn’t an unreasonable request but we were running late for a train and accidentally took it. I am from the US. My phone service is only ok in the UK and we were taking a long train ride to London that made me very nauseous and sick especially when looking at my phone. I got a message from Vincent an hour after I left saying he couldn’t find the key. I immediately recognized our mistake. Reading further, I saw when I didn’t immediately answer he had threatened to call the police on me. Once I responded, apologized profusely, and agreed to make any amends I could he was less hostile, but I was very caught off guard by the threat made when I had only been gone such a short time. The mistake was mine honestly, but I can’t help feeling it would have been handled better by a hotel. I guess this is one of those examples of why people are questioning the benefit of Airbnb in general. Why pay the money you’d pay at a hotel and have to shoulder a lot of the responsibility a hotel would take in full?
Sorry to write a not so great review but I guess I’m still hung up on how much it stressed me out to have someone threaten to call the police on me in a foreign country.