This is advertised as ‘Luxury accommodation with amazing views ‘and in the most part this is true. The apartment is spacious, well equipped , with comfy beds, plenty of seating and with extra facilities like the swimming pool and gym and of course a great view. However it’s does require some attention , the bedding in particular felt very worn and old especially the pillows and pillow cases . In order to sort the issues with the apartment being too hot , there a three portable AC units with the extraction pipes being fed out the windows and wires everywhere. In the main bedroom by the window there is some sort of plastic covering between the floor and the wall that is hanging off the wall , making getting out of the bed avoiding the AC unit and not tripping on this particularly precarious. When we arrived the door to the storage cupboard was badly damaged , as it turns out it was broken down by the last guests after their child was locked in by accident, a heads up would have been nice as it was quite a shock to see the state of it when we arrived. First impressions count.
The next obvious problem is the surrounding area , as mentioned previously, the apartment is situated right next to East Hastings where there is a big homeless and drug problem . Leaving the apartment you have to walk by this to get anywhere which as the very least was very uncomfortable. At night we decided to Uber everywhere as we did not feel safe to walk around the area at night . On reflection if I had been more aware of the neighbourhood in all honesty I would not have booked the apartment. It is not a great first introduction to Vancouver.