We stayed here for 2.5 months, from late March to early June, while we did a renovation on our house and overall, our stay was absolutely lovely. We were 2 adults and 1 toddler staying here. This location is what COVID dreams are made of. The end of dead end street, right beside a beautiful little forest and with an enormous backyard with lake views. Although it's a basement unit, it's incredibly bright and airy, clean and newly redone. The back half of the unit is at grade and there are great windows (all of which open) throughout the place.
The hosts are absolutely lovely; very responsive to all of our needs and great communicators. They also put a lot of time and effort into keeping the place working well and looking beautiful.
Both bedrooms are a good size, each with a queen bed. The bed in the principal room was very comfortable. Our daughter was in the second room in a crib so we never slept on that bed so can't comment on it. Each had an armoire with good space to hang stuff and a couple of shelves. It's not a ton of clothing storage, but it likely won't matter if you're not staying for a long time. Note, they also have a mini crib available if needed. There were also small desks in each room, and myself and my husband were working from home the entire time we lived here. I should also note that the wifi works really well and we were both able to be on video calls all day with no issue at all.
The en suite bathroom in the principal room was a good size and the shower was great and always had hot water. The second bathroom was a smaller but definitely very functional and both bathrooms were clean and new and everything worked great.
The living area is a good size, has great light (and a great view!) and the couch and lounge chair were both very comfortable.
The kitchen was definitely small, but very functional and had most of the tools you need to cook daily (which we did). The appliances are condo-sized, but we never found it to be an issue. The kitchen table comfortably sits 3, but if you had 4 people you would need to pull it out from the wall and you wouldn't really be able to access the fridge or the counter easily while sitting at the table.
Laundry is shared with the upstairs tenants/guests and both the washing machine and dryer are new and work very well. At our request, the hosts developed a schedule for use of the laundry room so we each knew when our days were.
The neighbourhood is fantastic and very family-friendly. Beautiful parks, nice cycling routes, and great forest walks are very accessible. It's not super close to a shops/restaurants so if you're looking to stay downtown, this is not location for you, but for us it absolutely perfect. It really did feel like an escape from the hustle and bustle of the city while being really not far from the downtown core.
The only downside to our stay was the long-term tenants who lived above us, though they moved out a week before we did. They were graduate students who didn't take much pride in living there, leaving beer bottles out on their porch to be blown down onto our patio, consistently making a big mess with our shared garbage cans and leaving clothing and a meat cleaver lying around in the backyard which is of course dangerous when you have a toddler, in addition to being quite noisy sometimes.
Overall, though, we absolutely loved Da's place, the location, and the hosts, and now that the upstairs tenants are gone we would return in a heartbeat if we ever got the chance. Thanks for a lovely stay!