Conclusion: This is a great apartment. Its cool in summer even though the A/C doesn’t really work at all. It’s in a great location and does have everything. Despite these positives my partner and I were very disheartened by the behaviour of our host at critical junctures. My partner and I want nothing to do with this host ever again.
Background:
This was a 32 day stay. Host was overseas and has no local property manager. organises everything himself and communicates with me on the app (the time difference being an issue) keys are picked up and dropped off at a local convenience store but this store then stopped accepting the keys and the host had to organise a different place to perform this function. I had to be present when cleaners arrived on 2 occasions due to this inconvenience.
Cleaner had been there to clean just before our arrival. On arrival there was a fridge full of rancid food from the previous occupants;. Eggs, milk, meat, fish, vegetables, condiments, soda. rotting onion on the kitchen top. Moldy smell in one bedroom especially that never went away no matter how much we aired out the place. I spent most of the next day there cleaning out and sanitising the entire fridge. next scheduled clean was a week away. After flagging these issues with the host he didn’t call the cleaner in again immediately so I had to sort out the cleaning myself.
On arrival the sheets, blankets and pillows were smelling of body odor. They had obviously not been washed in a long time. On the first night we slept using his blanket my partner and I woke up itchy all over. We sprayed the room with mortein and hoped for the best. The itching did reduce.

The host blamed the cleaner/cleaning company for these cleaning issues. Host claimed that he paid top dollar for a clean and that it was not done properly. I had to borrow clean beddings from a friend on our second day there. Before the next clean by the same cleaner the Host asked me to fwd an sms on his behalf to the cleaner ( he claimed he could not send it himself due to some error). It was a rude message admonishing the cleaner directly and quite sternly. I thought the host should be sending this type of message himself. When i refused the host’s request to send this patronising message to the cleaner (i advised him i'd rather speak to the cleaner in person with a less adversarial stance) the host gave me an unreasonably firm rebuke saying that i should not speak of any cleaning problems to him again. cleaner advised me that the fridge and laundry cleaning were extras (also cost extra) that the host did not pay for, hence they did not perform that work - i verified this by looking at the cleaning order receipt. It appeared the host tried to blame the cleaner for his own shortcomings