We smelled smoke before we even opened the door to the apartment, but thought perhaps someone had smoked a cigarette outside the door. But when we walked in the smell was awful. I immediately called the phone number with the listing and was told that she would bring over an ionizer to get rid of the smell. She came about 45 minutes later. However with the ionizer we had to leave the apartment while it worked and we were all hungry and tired and just wanted to hang out. After coming back the smell had dissipated a lot, but there was still the faint smell in the air and the carpet and sofa still smelled. Unfortunately we then felt dirty and the place seemed dirty for the rest of our one night stay. I can't imagine that the cleaners would not have smelled the smoke or perhaps it was the cleaners who smoked? The apartment itself is fine and fit our family. It could use a little love. The blinds in the living room almost fell down when we tried to lower it. The hand towel rack fell off the wall when we put our towels on it. The area seems nice and central to many things, but with COVID we did not go many places. And the owner was very attentive with the smoke issue, but she did not seem surprised that we had the issue, so perhaps it has happened before.