It's like this - Michael is a very nice host, most helpful and the apartment had lots of little extras in it that were most helpful (tea, milk, washing powder, a good iron etc).
BUT that does not make up for the pretty crappy state of the apartment and the building - which is cold and dark and thoroughly unwelcoming - it feels like a converted asylum. Inside the apartment itself - tatty old furniture, crappy old TV, horrid balcony looking over a back alley and a scuzzy old brick wall. Don't even think of taking a swim in the pool - so much chlorine you'd probably lose a layer of skin. Mutton dressed as lamb.