At first, I was taken aback by how cheap and spartan the apartment is: bare lightbulbs dankgling on cables from the ceiling, a fold-out bed with a thin, worn mattress and one lumpy pillow, no coffee machine, chairs that have partly given up. BUT: the location is fantastic, right in the middle of the European quarter, five minutes on foot to every institution, a wonderful organic shop on the ground floor of the building (it is noisy, though, and hot when the sun shines). AND: the apartment is new, with a dishwasher, a clean fridge and, most importantly: a great bathroom with a good modern shower with high water pressure, which is not the norm in Brussels. So I would happily stay there again.