NOT FOR LONGER THAN A WEEKEND!
If you are coming to Sevilla for longer than a weekend, this might not be the place for you.
First of all, because this apartment is UNDERGROUND, it is humid, smelly and very dark all the time. After staying only a few days in the place we decided to reduce our stay from 3 months to the minimum 1 month because it was terrible. We ended up moving to an amazing apartment for the same price.
DARK. Even though it has an internal patio, it is so deep below ground level that it doesn’t provide much natural light to the space. The kitchen and room windows open to the internal building’s stairs, so they also provide no light. Other than the two tiny windows in the bathroom that open to the main street, it is hard to tell if it is day or night.
BATHROOM. The bathroom smells like sewer. We stayed here for more than a month and it smelled bad every day. The host told us to open the 15 inch windows that face the main street’s floor (not the most private for a bathroom), and even then, the smell would not disappear. The bathroom was always full of flying bugs coming from the outside. The bathroom is so humid that the towels never dry. We had two sets which came in handy since we had to go to a local laundry to dry them (the apartment had a washer but not a dryer).
STAIRS. You have to go up 15 steps to then go down 26 steps to the apartment’s door. All of this while navigating around a huge mountain bike that is parked midway on the stairs.
STORAGE. The house is full of the owner’s stuff. When I say full, I mean entire closets locked with stuff, baskets full of stuff, shelfs full of stuff. Even the freezer was full of frozen food. You get a nice size closet with hangers to put your clothes, an external rack in the bathroom, and that is pretty much it. No drawers or shelf space for you. You don't even get space to put food in the kitchen cabinets.
HOST. The host was nice answering questions before/the day we arrived but didn’t help accommodate any of our problems during our stay. We arranged to have a cleaning person come and it was canceled the day before and were never provided an alternative. We ended up talking to a neighbor to find someone else to come clean the house. We decided to move to a different apartment and gave the host a 3 week notice but she insisted on keeping the 4 week cancellation policy so didn’t get any of our money back and ended up losing a full week of rental. Also, at the end she tried to charge us more for the pet fee when it is clear through Airbnb is a one-time fee per stay.
We have stayed in more than 12 places in Airbnb and always given a 5 star review.
I would not recommend this place to anyone.