I hate giving negative reviews, especially when the host was really nice. But, these are the things you should know, good and bad. I’ll start with the good.
1. The host is super nice. She communicates well. She tried to help but there wasn’t much she could do (I’ll explain later).
2. For the price, if you can overlook the bad, it’s very reasonable.
3. the water pressure in the shower is amazing.
Now the bad.
1. I arrived at 1:00am. The bed was wet. Yup, wet bed. Blanket, bed sheet, pillow, all wet. Not soaking wet, but wetter than just damp. It was gross beyond belief. Its not entirely the hosts fault. Their cleaning service bailed on them and the person they got to clean up did a terrible job. Didn’t bother drying anything.
2. Went to shower, and the towels were also wet. I thought I was going to kill someone. I went to use the bathroom and there was toilet cleaner on the toilet seat, and I sat in it. So I took a second shower...having to use the wet towel.
3. The smell throughout the apartment was disgusting. I finally discovered it came from the fridge. Again, not the hosts fault, but nonetheless, the entire place smelled like shit. Like there was a homeless guy covered in feces staying in the apartment. Again, the cleaning service didn’t bother cleaning the fridge and throwing out the dead carcass stashed away in the fridge.
4. 5 storeys to get to the apartment. That’s 5 floors that you have to walk up, because there is not elevator. I don’t think you understand how brutal that is. Every time you come back to the apartment, you have to climb 5 painful floors. When you arrive with your bags/luggage, 5 storeys, haha, it was so shite. That’s the one thing that the host, nor the cleaning service can fix for next time.
Again, most of the shit that went wrong is not the doing of the host, but it made for a god awful trip for me. Hopefully she gets a MUCH better cleaning service to clean the place.