This place is just OK -- not great. As others have said, the location is perfect and the host is communicative and generous. He left a nice welcome gift and stocked the fridge with drinks and snacks. However, there are some downsides worth pointing out: the apartment is basically the ground floor of a house, and the floors and walls are not soundproof. There are no doors between the bedroom and living area (only a curtain). The place is fine if you plan to eat all meals out, because there's no kitchen or true kitchenette -- just a mini fridge, microwave, and espresso machine. There's no kitchen sink so you have to wash all dishes in the tiny bathroom sink. This is all obvious from the listing but somehow I missed it before booking. We were traveling with our 1 year old and the host generously offered to let me use their kitchen upstairs -- I really appreciated this gesture but I would have just preferred to be staying somewhere with a normal kitchen. Again, this was my mistake in not carefully reviewing the listing.
The beds were very comfortable and the linens were soft and clean, but the pillows were terrible! I was really surprised that the pillows were so lumpy and uncomfortable given the care taken to make sure the beds were really comfortable. I also just don't like staying in rentals with shag rugs and pillows for cleanliness reasons, and unfortunately this apartment had multiple -- so we were tracking (other people's) hair from the rugs around the apartment the whole time.