Dank, dingy and drab.
We booked this place very last minute when there were very few options left available in the location (we wanted to be walking distance to family). We walked in and immediately regretted the 4 night booking. The front door is off a back lane way and it feels like a service entrance to a cafe. There’s no way you’d get anything more than a 2 door mini parked in the so called ‘parking space’. We had to park our hire car on the street a fair distance away. When I walked in I was hit by a musky rising damp smell. The decor is drab and the carpets up the stairs are full of pulled threads. There are marks all over the walls and thick dust in lots of locations. You can hear the people in the apartment above walking around all hours of the day and night. I really did NOT feel safe there. Realizing the apartment was below par, I politely asked Johnathon if I could reduce my booking to 2 nights and get a refund for the other 2. I paid close to $CA400/night (averaging out the extra charges over the nightly fee) he offered me a mere fraction of that, adding that the meager amount would only be given to me provided the place was rebooked. It was an amount I couldn’t remotely consider. So we stayed, my skin crawling the entire time. We ended up leaving a day early thank goodness, as a great alternative presented. So I lost money and learnt a hard lesson, I’d been hustled. This is the only bad experience I’ve had with Airbnb bookings in over 5 years. I usually always deal with the accommodation owner directly and they are always very hospitable and take great pride in their home. ‘Johnathon’ was clearly not the owner, rather a listing agent focused on making money rather than ‘space sharing’, the premise Airbnb was founded on. In summary, if you are just looking for a place to shower and sleep, then maybe this place can work for you. But if you’re like myself and reasonably expect something more than that for the nightly rate charged, don’t consider this place further. ‘Booker beware’ is my final word.