The good: Excellent location! So many things to do and nice restaurants within walking distance! Centrally located in downtown, there’s a TNT supermarket, Starbucks, drugstore, liquor store, sky train, and more less than 2 minutes away by foot. The apartment itself is really nice with lots of big windows, a deep soaker tub, and nice building amenities (pool, gym, hot tub open late)
Not so good: At first glance everything looked wonderful, really clean and polished. It’s not until the next morning that we started seeing all the little negatives that added up. It looks like there are certain spots in the apartment that are not cleaned very well. There were what looked like boogers on one of the bedroom walls, the blinds had dirt on them, some towels were stained/dirty. The kitchen comes with all the pots and pans you need but no cooking oil, salt, or pepper. Doesn’t make sense for guests to have to buy a tub of salt/pepper and cooking oil for a weekend stay. We couldn’t even really use the kitchen other than the microwave. Lots of general wear and tear visible. There were lightbulbs missing, the office/reading nook chair back was completely broken, the sheets felt very synthetic which left us waking up in the middle of the night covered in sweat. There were issues getting consistent water temperatures sometimes we had to wait several minutes for the water to warm up! And other times it came out boiling.
Also, felt it was important to note that the two bathrooms are actually one room separated by a shower with sliding glass doors on either side. Made for some awkward walk-ins from what is supposed to be separate bathrooms.
Finally, we were told that there would be two sets of key fobs but there was only one which is quite inconvenient for a larger group, and there were no checkout instructions provided so we felt unsure about what we had to clean/prep for the cleaners.
Overall, if you’re new to Vancouver and want to spend most of your time out and about and don’t plan on using the kitchen much or spending a lot of time in the Airbnb you’ll probably be fine. Not the cleanest place but not horrible. Do I think it’s worth the price tag? No. Not with all the damage/wear and tear and deficiencies.