The apartment is in a very centrally located area of the city. Only minutes away from shopping, the ocean, restaurants, bars and Stanley Park. You can basically walk everywhere. Even though you are in the middle of the city it is still quiet, and you do not hear any noises from the neighbors. The view is very nice, too. Even though you have city view, not ocean view, as I expected from the pictures. Alex is very nice and responsive and always helped me in no time when I needed something. The only downside for me was that the windows are badly isolated, so it can get quite cold in the winter. In addition, even though everything was very clean on the outside, the cabinets/drawers had lots of things inside of them, were untidy, and dirty. Besides that I really enjoyed my stay.