My fiancee and I travelled to Bruxelles in the last week of April, staying at Eduardo’s apartment for about three days.
We were really excited about the place, due to the high Number of positive reviews, but we were quite disappointed since our arrival.
We followed Eduardo’s instructions to Retrieve the keys, we opened the main door and we found ourselves in a small, dust-covered corridor, in which we were barely able to pass with our luggage, poorly illuminated by Both esternal and internal lights. The apartment was on the second floor, no lift was present and the stairs were spiral and narrow, making quite a difficult climb with luggage, whereas without it they were ok . The apartment’s door has two locks, one of which did not work quite well, requiring some movements to allora proper opening and closing, making us feel a bit uncomfortable about the safety of the Place. Once inside the apartment, we unpleasently discovered that renovation works were going on in the main hall on which our Windows opened, with working bridges all over the place connecting different apartments: we were not told about this issue, otherwise we would not have chosen this apartment, as we Don’t feel confident in living in a foreign city with potential easy-sneaking intruders from our windows.
As for the apartment per se, the bedroom is quite big, whereas the bathroom and the kitchen barely allow two people being together in the same Place. Nevertheless, everything was at its Place, all the things required for kitchen and bathroom needs were availabile, the Place was clean and tidy and There was a lovely wall on which everybody could leave a message to the owner. At the same time, the bathroom sink is extremely small, barely allowing proper toothbrushing, and hot water presented some issues during our stay.
Finally, although the position was quite favourable, as it was about 10-15 minutes from the Grand Place and three underground station, we did not feel safe in coming back at night, as we found prostitutes at the corner of the streets surrounding our apartment since the Early afternoon and some not-so-good looking faces around (they seemed like drug smugglers in some way).
Overall considered, although Eduardo is an extremely Kind host (he let us leave our luggage in the apartment beyond our stay, and we left some Leffe beers in the fridge to Thank him), we would not reccomend this apartment to other hosts.