Summary: Unwelcoming and rude host, small, dirty apartment.
From the second we arrived at the apartment we felt extremely unwelcome. Christopher did not pick us up or meet us at the apartment, which is not a requirement, but he could have left a welcome pack or at least a list of where things were/how they worked.
The actual apartment was filthy. The cleaner had done the best he could, but the filth was more severe than that. Little holes in the wall, damp on the ceiling, build up of dust on all ledges and a constant smell of mould.
It is a tiny apartment and the photos are very deceiving. What we thought was a wardrobe in the photos, was in fact the pull out bed folded up. Our friends were going to join us but luckily they could not as the apartment cannot fit 4 people, as Christopher has advertised.
We were left with one roll of toilet paper, a speck of washing up liquid and nothing else. Again not a requirement, but something we have not experienced at other airbnbs.
When we contacted Christopher throughout our stay he was unresponsive and unhelpful. When it came to checkout we needed somewhere to store our bags. Understandably someone else was booked in that day so we could not leave our bags, but Christopher was impolite and failed to even try and find a solution. He acted like it wasn't his problem.
Before this trip we have had such a positive experience from airbnb, but this stay hasn't come close. The location is good, but so is the location of hundreds of other apartments listed on airbnb in Boston - stay at one of those, not here.