Dreadful and overpriced —unforgettable
Let’s start with the positive side: the location. It’s at the most historical city center / royal mile area, which could be extremely fun if could go out (see reasons below)
Now the negatives: the check-in process was very rough since the lockbox for the keys was given the wrong code at first. We had to stand in the hailstorm for 20 min and figure out how to open the lockbox / get in. But that’s not the end of it, the key to the main gate didn’t match and we couldn’t enter the building. The owner once again was unbothered and told us to rang the neighbors so they could let us in. So ,we had to disrupt the neighbor upstairs to have her open the gate for us. She was clearly annoyed and told us she has done this many times. So i guess this was already ignored but nobody ever cared to warn us in a advance or correct it.
The interior design was gloomy at best. The pictures of the site looked very bright and spacious, which is far from being the truth.
The whole airbnb was gloomy. The living room had one shaky table and no chairs but a sofa which did not fit the height that much. When we ate, it was hard to sit and eat normally. The bed was put together from two extremely movable single beds which looked as if it was one double bed on the pictures.
The worst part of the whole experience was the overall cleanliness of the place: most of the beddings had stains (including blood stains). Both of us fell into the crevice at night as the beds moved apart. Our blanket touched ground and it was disgustingly filled with hairs and undetectable insect bodies. The wall had stains, the shower had stains, insects and hair everywhere, the drawers were full of used towels and beddings, overall disgusting we slept fully clothed
The room was still bright at night since the blinds did not really cover the neon placard downstairs. When we were trying our best to sleep the window felt like it did not exist with sounds of cars and trunks and people yelling.
Overall, it was truly a once in a life time experience…i could have chose something else