I have a very mixed review of our stay at Nevada’s apartment in Vancouver.
As expected, the location was wonderful. It was convenient to all the hot spots, and the views from the 35th floor were phenomenal. We also liked the tasteful decoration of the apartment, and the soaps smelled delightful. We enjoyed Papa Roti downstairs for breakfast, and the Asian grocery store was very convenient as well.
As for the downside, there were a few things that didn’t go well for our stay. When we arrived at 4:30, half an hour after the check-in time, the cleaning crew was still finishing up in the place. They let us come in, but we were isolated to a bedroom while they finished cleaning up. After a half hour, they asked if we would take the sheets out of the dryer and put them away since they were taking a while to dry. Not a big deal, but folding and putting away sheets wasn’t how I expected to start our time in Vancouver. Also the master bedroom was missing a pillow. I found a spare in the closet, but it was very yellow and had a musty odor, so I ended up wrapping a decorative pillow in one of the clean sheets and using that. Next we spent around 10-15 minutes trying to figure out what the remote controls in the bedroom operated. Eventually we realized that one of them operated the shades in the 2nd bedroom (not where the remote was located) and the other was for the shades in the master bedroom, but those were unplugged. After plugging in those shades, it turned out that they didn’t work regardless. We had to pull open/closed the curtains in front of the shades, which were not smooth to operate. The house could have used a more detailed manual.
After our first night of our stay, we were out most of the next day before returning to the apartment to find that the power had gone out in the two bedrooms, meaning there was no air conditioning while a heat wave was passing through Vancouver. The circuit breaker had flipped but couldn’t be reset. We let Nevada know, and she was very kind in responding with suggestions, but it wasn’t fixed, and we essentially spent our last two days there with unbearable heat during the day and slightly warmer nights than preferred. It’s fortunate that we were mostly out and about the city. Any one of these things alone would have been an inconvenience, but put together, we found ourselves wishing we had stayed at a hotel in Vancouver instead.