What can you do wrong when booking an Airbnb with a clean 5 star rating? Sadly, a lot! This apartment almost ruined out stay in NYC.
But let’s be fair and transparent:
The outstanding (+2 points per item)
- nothing
The good (+1 point per item)
- Blandine was very quick to respond (within minutes)
- complementary water
- we’ll equipped kitchen that allowed us to prepare dinner
The average (+/- 0 points per item)
- WiFi worked fine
The bad (-1 point per item)
- super hot and stuffy
- dark
- barred windows
- definitely not “freshly renovated” or only superficially (especially the bathroom)
- not a nice neighborhood
The ugly (-2 points per item)
- the mattress was wrapped in some plastic material which made lying on the mattress unbearably hot
- At the same time the AC in the bedroom was so ridiculously loud that you could not sleep with it running - we hardly slept!
- the couch in the living room was not a viable alternative to sleep on because the living room has neither AC not windows. Our daughter actually developed a temperature from just being in the living room (we called it Airbnb fever...)
Total points: -6
That should translate to an Airbnb rating of 1. I have no idea, how this place got a clean 5 star rating until now?!