Unless you’re only staying for a few days, don’t need to do laundry, don’t need reliable internet, and will be spending most of your time out of the unit, go elsewhere.
Nice location by Ossington and Trinity Bellwoods Park. Appliances are all in working condition. However, we did not enjoy our stay (~2 months) and would strongly recommend against this listing for anyone looking to spend a lot of time at home, as we did while working remotely. Notable issues:
- Inconsistent internet with poor upload speed shared by multiple units. Download speed is fine, so Netflix etc will be ok. But video calls often had issues and made working from home difficult at times
- Very poor noise insulation. For example - the entrance to the building is directly in front of the unit door, and the building door loudly shakes the unit when it slams shut. We could feel it sitting on the couch. There are multiple units in the building, so there are constantly people going in and out.
- Awkward living/dining room set up with a chest height table but lower stools, so they cannot comfortably be used together. Because the table is so high, it also cannot be accessed from the couch.
- Utterly unhelpful hosts - ghosted us when anything requiring effort came up. Examples:
- When we raised the internet issues, they suggested switching to another shared network (with worse connection quality) and said that Canada has worse internet than the US. Nevermind that we have both spent significant time in Canada and not had any internet problems until this unit
- No effort to investigate or fix the dryer not accepting coins other than to ask what coins were used. We said we used 4 one-dollar CAD coins ($3 for wash, $4 for dry…not cheap) and got no response, including when following up a week later. We ended up hanging the wet laundry in the apartment and had to find somewhere else to do laundry elsewhere the remainder of the stay. Extremely inconvenient. Laundry access was one of the reasons we booked this place.
- The shower rod fell off the wall. Said they would drop off a new one - never did.
- A kitchen window hinge broke in strong winds such that it could no longer close. No response at all when I let them know.
- We requested to shorten stay duration; hopefully people reading this review can understand why. Ignored.