The apartment was nice and clean. Parking was an issue and the host refused to provide parking. He suggested Parkopedia. The host calls himself a ‘team’, so you don’t know who you are communicating with. We had issues with parking and heating. When I wrote messages to the host, he or they would quickly respond, we will contact the host and get back to you ASAP thus Airbnb says the host responds within an hour but never with solutions. It was a bit shocking the supposed host was some sort of proxy. The thermostat was remotely controlled by the real host (not the proxy) and to get the right temperature, we had to go through the proxy to send a request for the right temperature, which never happened. We just turned the whole thing off when it felt too warm. The proxies were over zealously inquisitive right after I booked with them. They emailed so often and asked too many questions to the point I felt uncomfortable and asked them to stop but still they didn’t stop asking me to go to your shoddy website to fill in details. It was very uncomfortable but in the end I gave in to get check-in details.
As soon as I arrived in the apartment, there was a CCTV camera in the hallway. A card on a notice board above the shoe cupboard says, “Arlo sees you”. I don’t know if it has a mic. If it does, it may hear everything you say in the entire apartment.
Despite all these negatives about the host or the proxy, the apartment itself was very nice and we enjoyed the week we spent there.