First of all, I had to find the lockbox and retrieve the key in a bush in a dark alley way as it was in the evening. It would be much easier if the key was located somewhere closer to the apartment. There is no elevator so if you have luggage you must carry it up a number of flights of stairs. When we walked in there was the most dreadful smell I can’t begin to describe how bad it was. The first thing we see is a filthy staircase, it looked like something out of American horror story. We then tried to lock the door, soon to realise it didn’t work. As two young girls travelling we did not feel secure in this apartment. Airbnb arranged a hotel to move us to.
The apartment floors were dusty and the bathrooms we very dirty. The listing stated professionally cleaned but this was definitely not the case. The apartment looked like it had never been professionally cleaned. It was not a recently renovated apartment as the listing states. The kitchen was falling apart and there was a hole in the floor I tripped on. The kitchen bench was broken in pieces. Really unsafe!!
The host responded the apartment was “perfectly fine”. This is not the standard of Airbnb we have experienced in other locations. We were really disappointed that the photos and description did not match the actual state of the apartment. At the time of visit it looked quite run down and far from clean.