Kathryn’s place is in a great location and she and Dana are great hosts - incredibly responsive and friendly.
But there are a few things you should know about this condo.
People live in this apartment and the closets are full of their stuff. The freezer was packed with their food. The kitchen and bathrooms were clean but don’t look under the beds when you drop something on the floor.
Bedrooms. These are bedrooms only by the loosest standard and, for better or worse, BC has ridiculous building code standards for what constitutes a bedroom. The bedrooms don’t have windows and qualify as bedrooms only because they have sprinklers. The bedrooms are separated from the main room by translucent, plastic barriers with sliding doors. These barriers aren’t sound proof, don’t block light, and the sliding doors are noisy. The main room has a bank of windows with no black out shades. So, you may wake up with the morning light unless you wear a mask. Furthermore, if you and your fellow guests have different bedtime hours there is no escaping the light and noise from the main room for the guest that head to bed earliest. And a similar problem occurs in the morning. The mattress in the main bedroom was comfortable enough but no one will mistake it for a high quality mattress. And the bed frame creaks with every body motion.
Reading and work: The only reading and work space in the apartment is at the kitchen island. There is no desk space and no reading lamps - something that was a problem for my wife and I who needed to work during the day.
There is only one baseboard heating unit in the apartment which is located in the main room. My wife and were working so one of us tried working in the bedroom with the sliding door shut while the other worked in the main room. Unfortunately, the heat didn’t make its way into the main room.
This place might be fine for a single person but was totally unsuitable for two working adults with different sleep schedules.