Serious lack of good lighting in this Vienna (Wien) apartment.
There is really only one bathroom but it is split in half with sink and shower in one area, toilet and sink in nearer the front door.
One and a half rolls of toilet paper for two people over 3 days, I hope it is enough.
Ironically the bathroom with the toilet has no soap with which to wash your hands. The bathroom with the shower has hand soap but no shower soap.
Towels smell rancid like they have only been washed in water with no laundry detergent, or not laundered at all.
Getting into the garage with your vehicle is a unique experience. Your car is driven onto a car lift (elevator) and taken down to the second below ground level. You better be driving a small car to fit in these parking spots. I cannot wait to try and leave the garage when it is more full of cars (we arrived on a Saturday).
On the positive side, the location is downtown with lots of pedestrians. There is a bakery around the corner that is open every day of the week.
Several lights bulbs need replacing in the apartment. That and barely safe electric lighting.
Numerous dead insects on the foyer lighting lens.
On the plus side, there is a lot of room to spread out including two separate sleeping areas not counting the sectional couch. There is a small kitchen with glasses, a hot water pot, and drip coffee maker. Three umbrellas in the corner behind the front door is a nice touch. The unit has free wifi but the security on the router is very low, so we use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) which we pay for separately.
The main bedroom has drapes which can be pulled across the windows which is very nice as even with them pulled it is only semi-dark.
Refrigerator is stocked with fresh milk and cream for our coffee/tea service. A nice touch.
Somewhere in the hallway outside is a screaming child who sounds like he is right inside the room. I must be at least 30 feet from the front door.
I was amazed and unhappy that there was no soap for taking a shower with. The shower head continually falls down so that if you are tall like me you have to hold it with one hand. I am 180 cm and 100kg it was difficult for me to retrieve items placed on the floor. Plus if I was just a bit wider I would have been unable to take a shower at all. As I mentioned before the towels smell rancid or full of mildew.
Severe shortage of wall AC outlets. We brought a power strip and it is a lifesaver.
All the windows are on the same wall with venetian blinds that do not work, fortunately drapes were provided in the main bedroom.
Checking out at the end of your stay is another ordeal. First getting out of the parking garage 2 stories below the street. To operate the vehicle lift you have to get out of your car, insert a key and push a button, then get back into your car drive onto a platform that barely fits our VW Passat and hope you did it correctly. Then if you manage to get to the street level you leave the parking garage, park somewhere nearby where there is no parking and return the keys to the apartment on the 4th level, then return to your car. The apartment owner fails to mention this key return ordeal in his advertising.
Had to call the owner to figure out how to call the only elevator that goes to the subterranean parking garage. He said send the elevator you don’t want to the 8th floor then push the down button.
Sometimes the elevator malfunctions while you are in it by not moving because the outside door doesn’t close fully.
In the second sub basement parking garage the elevator call button sometimes doesn’t work
Button lights up green when working properly.
Another item not mentioned in the apartment advertising: several businesses are on the same floor and lower floors so you hear employees & customers coming and going while inside the apartment.
Had I known before what I know now I would never have reserved the apartment.
Laurenzerberg 5
1010 Wien
Apartment 33C