I really wanted to like this place. Especially because it was the Most affordable and the host was rather easy going, allowing me to have visitors AND check out late, both of which I REALLY REALLY REALLY appreciated.
However. There were many other things that make it so I had to still give a low rating. Coming with an infant, which he knew per my reservation, he wanted to know what time I was coming to insure the place was properly sanitized. Not only was there no “check in booklet/PDF/email” whatever you want to call it, but the check in time listed on Airbnb and the one he later gave were drastically different. I let him know I was about 2 hours away, but came 3 hours from when I told him I was. But the place was horrible. I legit had to go to the store to buy cleaning products to clean. This wasn’t a current guest mess, this was dirt and filth that had been there for some time. I even had to buy a new inner shower curtain since the one there had mold. The toilet was honestly black on the sides form dirt and mold. The tub mat has mold and the mirror was dirty. The counter tops on the kitchen were all dirty and sticky looking and there was a dead roach on the stove. The microwave was dirty and so was the fridge, inside and out and the trash was overflowing. He later came in, and never introduced himself, wiped down the inside of the microwave, and the middle of the stove, and just pushed the overflowing garbage down. During our stay not only did we have to go without internet access for almost a whole day. He was constantly coming in and out of the apartment unannounced, using space in the fridge for the apartment although he wasn’t actually living in the apartment, the front door was always being left open by him, and after the second day the lock for the outside street door stopped working, although I reached out to him about it, he never replied back, and it stayed that way the rest of our stay, and we had to leave the street door ajar always just to get back in. On the Friday night we were staying he came into the building that night talking so loud about being a DJ on his phone, and then started BLASTING music so loud from his office next door that even in the room with the door closed we could hear it. And I had to ask him to turn it down, it was past midnight mind you.
But what made it worse of all, was that the apartment had mice! Myself, my mother as well as the guest I was allowed to have, all saw it. The way the doors are, they don’t touch the ground, so one ran into our room!
I feel with covid and the fact that he had prior knowledge of me coming with an infant, as listed when I booked the apartment, this place is far below standards of cleanliness. So unless you want to spend money and time cleaning a dirty apartment, and stuffing towels into the opening of your front room door to prevent mice coming into your room, as well as possibly having to use your own hotspot for internet. I wouldn’t book it.