My husband and I were really looking forward to our trip to this ground floor airbnb. The photos on the listing look stunning and the location unbeatable. However our overall stay was not grand.
When we first arrived we struggled to enter the flat, not because there wasn’t enough information to go off of but too much. Way too much that by the end of our trip, we had pages of what I assume to be automated messages and it was overwhelming.
The apartment is aesthetically pleasing but lacking certain comforts.
- The main hall way of the apartment building often smells of weed for sometimes hours on end and is very dirty. The smell leaks into the apartment often.
- The walls are very thin it’s easy to hear people walk by on the sidewalks. One of the nights a neighbor kept us up until 2300 doing construction work.
- The bathroom has no ventilation except the tiny window in the shower, which opens next to the front door of the main entrance to the building. This window doesn’t have a screen on it so if opened, someone can easily reach inside or see you in the shower if they look. The shower head is very rusted. The shower doesn’t drain properly and you have one of two choices; shower with the shower curtain attacking you or let more water onto the floor.
- Lastly, but most importantly the bedroom. The main light rarely works, the window shade in the bedroom is poorly designed leaking light directly into your eyes when the sun rises at 0430 and the bed…. Oh the bed, neither of us have ever slept on a worse bed and both of us have been in situations where we had to sleep on plastic pads for months on end. It squeaks every time you move even an inch, and the actual bed feels of nothing but a foam mat on a box spring.
I think the owners care for the apartment a lot, however, it’s time for much needed updates in terms of comfort.