Elenas apartment is lovely and very well equipped, but unfortunately communication with Elena herself made the experience a nightmare.
First Elena did not give us the number of the apartment before we arrived. We picked up the keys from a nearby bar as instructed, but did not know the apartment number or floor. She did not answer my call or message for several hours. This would normally be the kind of thing I would not even mention in a review because I understand mistakes like this happen. But I do it simply to illustrate that communication was off with the host from the very beginning.
Two days after we left the apartment, I was shocked to receive a request for €1100 from Elena. She said that someone wearing heels had scratched her hardwood floor and that we had splashed wine on the walls of the living room. No one in our group wore heels and of the two bottles of wine we drank the entire weekend, none spilled. It was then that I started reading her reviews and discover I wasn’t the first person she had tried to charge for damages they weren’t responsible for. When I told her this she sent a long and confusing apology. She said the wine must have been from a previous guest and made no mention of the scratches she had previously demanded €900 for.