Overall: Excellent place with an exceptional view at a great value.
Highlights: Heated and well designed balcony with a view of the sunset and a nice view of the city, including the hippodrome and a mosque. Awesome two-player arcade cabinet with thousands of games. Black out curtains.
Entertainment: Awesome arcade cabinet, huge TV, comfortable couch. The arcade cabinet was a major highlight for me. I loved playing all the games I could never get through as a kid. It has all the classic arcade games as well as what appears to be 90% of the NES and SNES catalog, all sorts of obscure arcade games, etc. It's running on the RetroArch arcade emulator.
(Read to the end for arcade directions)
Bedroom: Comfortable bed, blackout curtains, nice pillows. If you wake up early, you'll enjoy the windows as they let in ambient light. If you wake up late, you'll appreciate the total darkness by closing the blackout curtains. On the first night, the train kept me awake outside, but every following night my wife and I slept soundly. The thick blackout curtains and windows kept most of the sound out. If you're a super light sleeper, just get some wax earplugs to sleep with. But you'll probably be fine.
Kitchen: Well stocked, working oven, very nice electric steel kettle.
Bathroom: Good shower, unlimited hot water.
Facilities: Good treadmill, enough weights to do a 50kg deadlift, bentover rows, or OHP, but no bench or anything. Gym is good enough for maintenance if you get creative. We never went to the pool as it's winter, but it looked nice enough.
Host: Great host, communicative and helpful. The arcade cabinet's sound stopped working, and he sent a technician over to fix it. He was very accommodating for our check-in and check-out.
I wish I had arcade directions when I arrived, so I'll share them here for you to save you time.
Arcade directions: Top buttons are "credito" & "select." Press them together two times to exit any game. Use the left stick to navigate and choose a game. On the game menu, select a game and hold Y to add it to your favorites.
To adjust sound in game, hold credito and move the left joystick up or down. This only works while you're playing a game. It doesn't work from the menu. All menu and setting controls are done on the left side, with player 1.
Pause any game by pressing credito + y. Save a game state with "save state". This is good if you don't want to play a game all the way through and want to return to it later. Be careful though and don't mess with any other settings here.
If you're playing an arcade game, press "credito" to add coins to a game. In general for menus, press A to go back, and B to go forward.
Do not attempt to update the games or connect to the internet or anything.