I was really excited about this apartment as I saw so many good reviews. I stayed here for two nights with my sister. While staying here, we could hear everything from upstairs, including: talking, walking, watching TV, restroom noises, doors closing, toilet flushing, etc. It felt like sharing a room with the people upstairs and you could always know where they are, what they are doing, and what they talking about. Just imagine a really thin piece of cardboard as a ceiling. We rarely slept for two days and it ruined our trip. I’m having a really hard time believing nobody had issues with the noise. Since we couldn’t sleep during the first night, we eventually fell asleep slept late but around 10:30AM the cleaning lady came to clean the floor above and that sounded like a moving company moving furnitures and fixing the apartment. So unfortunately sleeping late is also not an option here. We tried to spend time outside as much as possible because we dreaded coming back to this apartment.
I asked Irma if I could do an early check out, he kindly gave me an option to pay a 50% penalty fee for the remaining days, for a total of $355.04 if staying one night, which is three times more than what I paid per night. I could have stayed in a luxurious place with that money if I didn’t book this apartment. It is my fault for booking this place, so I decided to stay one more night to reduce the amount of money I’d have to spend per day ($207). The host was communicative and friendly but it didn’t make my overall experience any better.
In the middle of the next night, we heard people banging really loudly on what seemed to be our door. We both woke up immediately and freaked out thinking someone was trying to break into the apartment so we weren’t able to sleep that night either. I don’t know what happened that night but I assume some people checked in as we could hear conversation and loud laughs from new guests upstairs.
I was really glad to end this nightmare after two days (originally planned to stay here four nights) when we went to another place where we could sleep. We stayed in four different Airbnbs during our trip but we never had issues like these with the other apartments.