e stayed in Nick’s quaint apartment from Friday night until Monday morning.
We found the location to be quite handy and it was easy to get into the building on a daily basis. I think, because there was three of us, we would have liked to have had more than 1 key to use between us, but we managed.
Nick was very helpful and attentive, he met it us outside, and showed us around the apartment.
Upon him leaving, we had a bit more of a look around and found that the room hadn’t been cleaned. We were disappointed as we did not expect this from the previous reviews.
There was lots of hair in numerous places around the apartment including in the dishwasher, in the shower, bathroom, fridge and couch.
The fridge was dirty on the inside and on the floor, as well as the kitchen splash back being very dirty.
The mirror in the bedroom, bathroom and shower door were filthy.
A pair of thongs had been left on the balcony, which was extremely dusty and dirty. We didn’t use this balcony at all.
The main bed is advertised as two different bed sizes, a king size bed and queen sized bed. We think it was a double bed. It is also advertises to sleep 4, but I wouldn’t recommend it as the futon was quite small. When we opened the futon, there was an old sheet left on the inside, making us feel uncomfortable to sleep there and feel clean.
We struggled to sleep as there was a loud mechanical noise and vibration that would incessantly occur.
On Saturday, we shared our concerns with Nick about the cleanliness of the apartment, and he was very understanding. He informed us the cleaners don’t come on the weekend, which we found odd – as they had obviously not been there to clean before we got there. We think it was a little bit ridiculous seeing as we are charged a $69 cleaning fee. He then told us that he wouldn’t be able to come into the city until the afternoon, and would be finished at around 4/5pm. We had left the apartment at 10am, and notified him this, in the hopes that it would be cleaned earlier so that we could go back the apartment before our dinner plans. We ended up getting back the apartment at 6:30, only because we showered at a friends house in the meantime. Once we returned on Saturday night, we didn’t notice much of a difference. Nick had, however changed the sheets for us, the apartment smelt nice and he had left us a bottle of rose and some chocolates.
As a whole, we were really disappointed with the accomodation aspect of our trip. We are grateful for how well Nick took our feedback, and attempted to tend to our needs, but unfortunately the trip had already been soured..