This apartment rental was one of the most disappointing I have made on VRBO. First the positives. The location is great and while the host is certainly responsive, the response was almost always ‘we sympathize with your issue…we will contact our technical department and get back to you’. On the negative side of the ledger, the whole apartment is infused with a terrible fish smell, likely from the fish restaurant next door. The host’s solution to the problem was to open the windows. Unfortunately, the windows are sealed shut in the bedroom on the top floor, and in the back bedroom on the 1st floor, if you open the window between 10am and midnight, all the exhaust from the fish restaurant wafts into the apartment. The windows in the sitting room open, but the smell is so embedded in the place that does not really help. The apartment is also extremely worn with holes in the carpeting, gaps in the floorboards, cracks in most of the walls, lights that are not working, and mold, staining, water damage or dirt in a number of places. It also badly needs a paint job. The pictures do not accurately portray what you get when you arrive. Smaller issues include things like easily accessible blocks of mouse poison, a bathroom in the back 1st floor bedroom that is only separated from the room by an old shower curtain, and the fact that the shared bathroom for master bedroom is located up a steep flight of steps. Overall, a terrible disappointment, particularly for the price paid.