Nice apartment in St-Roch. I was nervous based on some previous reviews and was overall very pleasantly surprised, it’s a clean and well-equipped apartment. The bed is comfortable, the kitchen was clean and had lots of stuff in it, the bathroom was good, and the apartment was very private. However I’m giving four stars rather than five for several reasons:
(1) the neighborhood is rough, there is a ton of homelessness and drug abuse on the streets, I did not feel safe walking around at night and was worried about break-ins to the car, etc. There are many cute shops and restaurants but it is intermingled with profound poverty. Walking around was stressful and I would caution anyone reserving to just be aware of this since the description does not communicate this fact.
(2) One of the windows had a broken open/close mechanism which was problematic in such a rough neighborhood, and additionally I suspect this was the source of the noise complaints mentioned in other reviews (although noise was not really a problem for me). I managed to close the window by twisting the screw by hand and pushing on the window from the outside, but this is an easy thing to fix and I was disappointed to see it.
(3) No bad odors in the room on arrival (I had been concerned because several review reported a cigarette smell), but when the AC was left on the stale cigarette odor crept in. Clearly the AC unit needs to be replaced.