Due to apartment conditions we noticed immediately upon our arrival we immediately began looking for a hotel. This is not how we wanted to spend the first day of our vacation! This is time that we will never get back!

With 500 words limit, we'll be painfully brief, as we want to be much more detailed. We have pictures and video supporting everything stated here.

The entire apartment was serviced by a single, very old, insufficient, 6000BTU A/C window unit, leaving the entire apartment very hot and stuffy. The living room wall thermostat showed the apartment was 83 degrees to which Cecilia said it wasn't valid. A fan in the bedroom showed the bedroom temperature to be 82 degrees.

The window with the A/C unit in it is 5 feet wide. The A/C unit is 18 inches. The open window space was "covered" with a piece of leaning plywood and a piece of thin flexible plastic. As a result the outside hot air was just pouring into the apartment.

After getting a late dinner we came back to the apartment with a new window A/C unit installed. This new unit was still completely insufficient to cool a 2-room apartment with 12 foot ceilings. It made a one-degree difference in the apartment.

The street outside was under construction and apparently had been for weeks. You could not drive a vehicle to the building. Immediately upon our arrival we questioned if construction would start at 7am like in the States. Cecilia ensured us this would not happen. Well, she was wrong, or just not honest, because in Montreal, we can attest that construction starts just after 7am! We were woken up by the sounds of back-hoe's digging, metal on metal slamming, machinery engines, and the like. Therefore, sleeping after 7am is impossible! The unit is on the 2nd floor with construction happening right under the bedroom window. And don't forget that the open living room window is covered with a leaning piece of plywood. Not exactly good at keeping the sound out. We would reasonably expect to be notified of the construction prior to our visit. It would have influenced our decision to stay there.

There is one working elevator in this 2-elevator building. The second elevator has been out of service for over 2 years per a full-time resident.

The apartment wasn't cleaned to the level one would expect.

Prior to booking we inquired about the cost of parking in the neighborhood. Cecilia quoted parking at $15/day. Actual rates were $25 - $30 per day. Her response was inadequate, something about us not negotiating the right way with the parking lot owners. We relied on her answer for the parking cost as part of our initial decision to reserve her apartment.

Thank god we were able to find a hotel room in Montreal the next day, which was completely full of people for the Osheaga music festival (135k people) and a comedy festival. We regret ever having booked this apartment!