The location of this apartment is great, but be warned -- the apartment is decrepit and there are issues that my boyfriend and I experienced due to this.
- Nearly every single outlet in the apartment is so loose that you will not be able to use your phone at the same time it's plugged in to charge. If you're curling or blow drying your hair, the plug will come out of the outlet.
- There isn't sufficient heating in the apartment. There is no thermostat to control the temperature, and you will be expected to use one wall heating unit in the bedroom, plus four space heaters to heat the apartment. The supplied extension cords are so old that they get very, very hot from plugging in the space heaters, and the extension cords will spark as you're trying to plug and unplug them into and from each other. Again, the wall outlets are so loose that you will be forced to use the extension cords in order to get a current to turn the heaters on. Also, none of the wall heater units have knobs to turn on and off; they're all broken off. The only one that worked for us during our stay was the one in the bedroom. We still had to sleep with long pants, long sleeves, two extra blankets, the wall heater unit on, and two space heaters on to get warm enough to sleep. It was a balmy 50 degrees in the apartment when we were there. To use the bathroom, we had to use an extension cord on an extension cord with the space heater plugged in, and put it in the bathroom with the door closed for a good 15 minutes to heat the room before taking a shower. When we were there, it was 12 degrees outside, and it was freezing inside the apartment. It was completely unacceptable, and I filed a complaint with Airbnb about this.
- We cannot speak to the air conditioning in the unit, but I assume the AC isn't sufficient to cool the place comfortably either. There was one AC unit in the bedroom and one in the living room, which is rather large and leads directly into the long hallway and kitchen.
- The lighting in the apartment is so poor you won't have sufficient light to precisely do your make-up if you go out in the evening. Several of the light bulbs were out in the unit, and the ones that worked were so dim they may as well have not worked at all.
- There's a random shoe print on the ceiling in the bedroom.
- Every single wall has cracks in them, and there is paint peeling in every room and on all the window sills.
- The shower tub has paint peeling all over it, as well as all along the walls and window in the bathroom. The shower also has black mold.
This is my first negative review for an Airbnb or accommodation in my life. We enjoyed the location, but due to the issues we experienced, we wish we would have just stayed at a hotel. If we were to stay longer than two nights, we would have left this Airbnb early and found a hotel to stay at instead. Your money is better spent elsewhere.