- A cozy little spot in both a good and bad location. It's located steps away from all sorts of great little shops and places to eat, but also on the same block as some sketchy city streets. I strongly recommend that you be comfortable walking on city streets and the security risks that entails to stay here. We learned quickly that Eastside Vancouver is the bad part of the city, and this apartment is located directly on the border of that and Gastown, which is hipster, clean, and very nice.
- Heads up, as of writing there is no TV in the apartment but there /are/ two full bathrooms. (In this Studio apartment..? haha). It's an odd but charming space that has a few kinks to be worked out still. (Both shower handles, the Thermostat, the missing bathroom door handle on the inside) Most commonly needed kitchen supplies are provided. The in-unit washer/dryer/dishwasher was great.
- For parking, use the SpotAngels app, it will show you a list of 24/7 free parking streets in the area. As with any free city parking, they're hotly contested, but doing this saved us a couple hundred dollars from the paid public parking just for adding a 10 minute walk to the car. The spots we found we East of the apartment (sketchy-ville) and frankly we were concerned about our car getting broken, but it didn't and was fine for us.
- Siavash was a great host, very communicative and helpful. I really appreciate how streamlined he has the checkin/checkout process.
- If you stay here, make sure to go to The Blarney Stone! It's an Irish pub just steps out of the apartment and it's wonderful. We went there twice in our short stay. Live music Friday/Saturdays at 10pm.