First and foremost, this listing is very misleading and I would absolutely not book again. In fact, I will not use nor recommend Airbnb anymore. The host listed is Larissa (a female). This "Larissa" person communicated with me several times through messages and never mentioned anything about a male living in the apartment. No where in listing does it state that only a male lives in the airbnb. I booked this specific airbnb and spent several thousands dollars because I would be renting a room and sharing space with another female, not a male. However, when I arrived, there was not a female in sight. I stayed for 4 weeks and never once did I meet or hear from "Larissa". The only person who lives in this airbnb is an adult male.
Upon arriving and recognizing that this airbnb listing was grossly misleading, I tried to search for somewhere else to stay. However, I couldn't find another place to stay in such a short time and had no extra funds to use. Also, upon arriving, the roommate requires you to provide him with your driver's license so that he can take a picture of it for his records. I felt very uncomfortable speaking up about any of my concerns after that because he had my address.
The roommate keeps to himself for the most part and was quiet. He seems like a nice person.
The space itself is a bedroom with a private bathroom and walk-in closet. The laundry room is in the bedroom, so when the roommate has to do his laundry, he must come into your bedroom to do it. There is a small shared living room with no furniture aside from the roommates work station, a small shared dining room with a table and a few chairs, and a small shared kitchen.
The kitchen was very dirty, cluttered, and looks nothing like the pictures included in the post. The sink was very old and disgusting but thankfully was replaced. There are very few pots/pans and the lids to which are also dirty. There is a regular sized garbage bin in the kitchen which was also very dirty and had garbage in it. Evidently the roommate doesn't use this garbage can, so it never gets taken out unless you take it out. This was not communicated, so the garbage became very smelly and flies accumulated around the kitchen.
The private bathroom was very dirty. In fact the shower curtain has huge areas of mold on it. The bathtub was also dirty with stains. The toilet had stains in the bowl. The mirrors had toothpaste stains. It was clearly not cleaned between guests. The bedding was already on the bed and 2 towels were hanging over the shower rod. There were empty shampoo bottles in the bathtub and garbage in the garbage bin under the bathroom sink. Judging my the dirtiness of the bathroom and kitchen, I can only assume that these were not cleaned, so I had to do the laundry. Keep in mind that Airbnb charges a cleaning fee when booking this place.
I noticed ants in the private bedroom as soon as I arrived. I shut the windows (they do not have screens) and walked to the closest Target to purchase ant bait and spray. Neither spray nor bait got rid of the ants. The ants were on the walls, in the bed, on the desk. They were everywhere. I took the garbage out daily but that did not help.
The facility has a nice salt water pool and pool side chairs that are comfortable. The fitness center is very small, basically your average hotel gym. A few dumbbells, an elliptical, treadmill, and a few benches.
I left 3 days before the end of my work contract because I could not stay there any longer. Again, overall the stay here was bad. The posting was very inaccurate in many ways and frankly, this posting should be removed until the host updates the listing.