OK … so really this apartment should get a four star rating, however let me start this review with something of an analogy … you know that restaurant scenario where everything that can go wrong does … firstly there is no table available, then when you do get a table the waitress forgets to bring you a menu, then she spills your wine, your meal is cold or there’s a hair in it, the dessert just never arrives and then your bill is incorrect, and as much as the management try to make things work it just doesn’t all go to plan? Meantime, the table beside you have the best meal in gastronomic history and go home raving about the restaurant and their experience … well yeh .. that was kind of what happened to us at our lovely little apartment in Malabia Ave.

It’s a great apartment, and Luciano and Facundo were really friendly and tried so hard to make things right … BUT … things just kept going wrong .. it all started on day one with the maid being late and so she obviously did a rush job (and not a good one) on cleaning the apartment, then there were items from the kitchen missing, broken or non-existent (a corkscrew in the kitchen draw is a given in a country where the ‘Stelvin screw Cap’ is still to be embraced by the wine industry). Then the stovetop was not working properly, the oven broke completely, the toilet would not stop flushing, the door to the patio jammed and …. Oh yeh … the missing dessert scenario .. that would be the refrigerator broke whilst we were away for a few days in Uraguay and we lost a fridge full of food as it all went bad. An annoying and costly episode.

The apartment is a great space in a GREAT location ….. we were (apart from everything breaking) very comfortable and felt very safe. Let me add that we were there for a month, and apart from a few of the ‘issues’ that we had at the start … mainly to do with the cleaning … we loved the apartment and the area … Palermo Soho is THE place to stay in BA. AND … as I said, Luciano and Facundo really tried to get it all happening and working for us .. it was just one of those weird situations where everything that could go wrong did … unfortunately for us.