The apartment is nicely located close to the center of Antwerp and close to numerous amenities (e.g., supermarkets, bars, restaurants). It is my personal opinion that luxurious suites it's an overstatement but having said that the apartment is spacious and offers what is promised in the description; it could be cleaner as there were hairs from the previous people next to the bed table. It was easy to find by car and there is paying parking only 1 minute walk from the apartment. The communication with Petra was very fast as she is a responsive host overall.
However (and I do recognise that this is not entirely Petra's responsibility) my boyfriend and I experienced the most unsafe situation so far in an airbnb. On the second night of our stay (2 night-stay) a “couple” staying next to us banged rudely at our door first asking for cigarettes. We thought to our selves, okay, that is not appropriate but whatever. Then at 2 am in the night they almost broke down the door (or what looks like a door) that connects the bedrooms and gave us the scare of our lives. After we yelled at them, they stopped. Little did we know the night drama would not end there. They started fighting and harassing the other apartments by banging on the doors and going up and down the stairs till someone thankfully called the police!! The police came around 6 to ask what is happening. Only the woman spoke English, the man did not, but that did not do much as they continued banging doors and went up and down the stairs till 7 am. We barely slept and the whole situation was very suspicious as they clearly knew some other tenants as well.
It is obvious that the pick-up key system is something to rethink for these suites. The fact that there is zero supervision whatsoever, allowed for this kind of situation to happen. On top of that, other tenants were smoking weed and as a result one of the floors was stinking.
It saddens me to say that I would not recommend these apartments, unless there is some serious security upgrade. I also find it surprising that even though I let Petra know about this event the moment of our departure she did not bother to respond at all and ask if we were okay. In my humble opinion that would be the kind thing to do after such terrible experience.