Building is very nice, location is great, the apartment is fine, even if up close it is more Ikea than Elle Décor. However, when I arrived for my three week stay, the apartment was very dirty, there was no dining table as seen in the photo, no cutlery other than some plastic knives and forks and the dryer was broken. I had seen from the reviews that other guests spent their first hours in the apartment cleaning the kitchen and bathroom, but I wasn’t paying rent to then clean somebody else’s toothpaste out of the sink, sticky stuff from the kitchen counter and dust from the floor. Salah, the man who is the owner/agent of the apartment and who let me in, was very accomodating since what I was requesting should have been done before I ever arrived. In the next days, he organized to have the apartment properly cleaned for me, dryer repaired, table and chairs delivered along with tableware.

It is clearly the apartment of a guy (I’m no detective but the dirty clothes in the drawers and toiletries in the bathroom were all masculine and the dvds on the shelf were all action flicks) and there was no Kim Trudeau to be heard from, even though I asked repeatedly about her. I personally find it deceptive and not a little creepy to think you are renting an apartment from a girl, when it is actually from a guy. As it turned out he was a nice guy but why the ruse? As a woman travelling alone, it made me very uncomfortable.