UncleB’s place was well done, and his description is very good. The fact that the outside was indeed outdated didn’t bother us, and the neighbors we encountered were friendly. For whatever reason, both the outside and inside of the apartment had a very smoky odor, immediately noticeable. Worse, however, was that smoke and noise came in the bedroom window and produced a terrible night’s sleep. The temperature was cool, so the air conditioning was off. The smoke smell was so distracting that we decided to vacate the unit the next day and surrender our remain four-day payments, abiding by UncleB’s cancellation policy. UncleB had been a great communicator until we let him know about our decision, then we never heard from him again.
Perhaps our experience was a bad-timing incident since it appeared to us that the odor had not been a problem for most previous guests. And we realize that a host cannot control neighbors, and maybe there was a problem with previous guests. Had the smoke not been a problem, we probably would have enjoyed our stay at UncleBs. This was our first Airbnb, out of about 70 worldwide, where we had encountered this smoke problem.