expat renting - Le Pop - Netflix - Proche gare - One-Bedroom Apartment

😊: None. 😢: [A Frustrating Stay: False Advertising and Poor Communication] 1. False advertising on AC. The listing title explicitly advertised air conditioning. There was none. When I raised this with the host, "AC" quietly disappeared from both the title and the description, an implicit admission that it was never there. Being misled on this point in 40°C+ heat wasn't a minor inconvenience; it felt like a deliberate bait-and-switch. 2. Worn-out furniture. The sofa bed creaked badly with any movement, making it uncomfortable to sleep on. 3. Inadequate amenities for the length of stay. For a full week's stay, we were given exactly one towel per person, and any additional or replacement towels came with an extra charge. 4. No soundproofing. It was so bad that every time the neighboring room's door opened or closed, it felt like our own door was being opened and closed. 5. Check-in was a mess. The directions to the entrance were poorly communicated, and worse, the listed address overlapped with a different building entirely. As a result, we ended up wandering outdoors for a full hour in 40°C+ heat trying to find the entrance. We called the provided number repeatedly and got no answer. Even a local resident who tried to help us couldn't get through on the same line. 6. Unresponsive host. Whenever we had an actual question, we got silence. The only messages we received were generic broadcast notices, never a direct answer to what we asked. 7. Full payment was made, yet still forced to hand over card details for check-in. 8. Pest problem from day one. On check-in, the room already had a noticeable number of flies and gnats. 9. An inconvenient location and a betrayed expectation. We accepted the roughly 25-minute walk to the city center because we trusted that we'd have air conditioning to recover in afterward. Since there was no AC at all, that distance ended up feeling far worse than a mere inconvenience..

😊: None. 😢: [A Frustrating Stay: False Advertising and Poor Communication] 1. False advertising on AC. The listing title explicitly advertised air conditioning. There was none. When I raised this with the host, "AC" quietly disappeared from both the title and the description, an implicit admission that it was never there. Being misled on this point in 40°C+ heat wasn't a minor inconvenience; it felt like a deliberate bait-and-switch. 2. Worn-out furniture. The sofa bed creaked badly with any movement, making it uncomfortable to sleep on. 3. Inadequate amenities for the length of stay. For a full week's stay, we were given exactly one towel per person, and any additional or replacement towels came with an extra charge. 4. No soundproofing. It was so bad that every time the neighboring room's door opened or closed, it felt like our own door was being opened and closed. 5. Check-in was a mess. The directions to the entrance were poorly communicated, and worse, the listed address overlapped with a different building entirely. As a result, we ended up wandering outdoors for a full hour in 40°C+ heat trying to find the entrance. We called the provided number repeatedly and got no answer. Even a local resident who tried to help us couldn't get through on the same line. 6. Unresponsive host. Whenever we had an actual question, we got silence. The only messages we received were generic broadcast notices, never a direct answer to what we asked. 7. Full payment was made, yet still forced to hand over card details for check-in. 8. Pest problem from day one. On check-in, the room already had a noticeable number of flies and gnats. 9. An inconvenient location and a betrayed expectation. We accepted the roughly 25-minute walk to the city center because we trusted that we'd have air conditioning to recover in afterward. Since there was no AC at all, that distance ended up feeling far worse than a mere inconvenience..