WARNING: PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE STAYING!
Contents:
i) Location/Parking
ii) Cost
iii) Poor Communication
iv) Description of the Space
This is my first negative review after using AirBnB for ~8 years. These descriptions are as of July 5, 2021 and some may be subject to change if appropriate adjustments are made:
i) Location/Parking:
Vehicles occasionally drive by playing absurdly loud music that shook the entire apartment. There is free parking on the street, but each side of the street does weekly cleaning. Check the signs and move your car accordingly. I was never towed, but I moved my car ahead of time. I would not leave valuables in your car.
ii) Cost:
- This location overcharges for cleaning, in my opinion. With charges/taxes/fees included, this location cost a total $81.31 per night for a 9 night stay. The cleaning fee was over $100. Please check this before confirming your reservation.
iii) Poor communication:
- Arkady made a friendly and polite first impression, but then conducted himself very unprofessionally in 3 cases:
1) Arkady threatened to enter the space without my permission to turn the kitchen exhaust fan off while I was out for the day.
2) Arkady cornered me and my girlfriend before leaving one morning and threatened me to not leave a negative review because “he did not want me to ruin his Superhost reputation.” This was unacceptable. The status of a review will not be a hostile negotiation. I will be leaving an honest review.
3) Upon checkout, my girlfriend answered all of Arkady’s questions about what we cleaned and how we left the space. Immediately —and I mean quite literally seconds after she finished explaining—I joined the conversation between the 2 of them. Arkady repeated every single question to me that he asked my girlfriend so that I would answer. This was rude to my girlfriend. Why were her answers insufficient?
iv) Description of the space:
- The “private apartment” is the second floor of a home that has been converted into a private space. Arkady’s adult son lives on floor 3 and Arkady lives on floor 1. You can hear two individuals above you make noise in the evening regularly.
- Arkady’s home office’s door is directly across from a door in your bedroom and a door in your kitchen. All 3 doors open into the hallway. The doors are very thin, with space under them, and Arkady spends time in his office. This means you can be heard **everywhere in the apartment**, even when making very little noise. This is not private.
- All of the windows in the bedroom and bathroom have transparent blinds and no curtains. People from the outside can see straight through them. If you want to change clothes, you will expose yourself.
- Moldy shower curtain
- Only given 2 total towels for a 9-night stay as a party of 2
- No sheet replacements (the sheet closet is dusty, musty and smells unclean)
- Kitchen was missing some useful items like a whisk, large serving spoon, multiple bowls, etc