We just spent about a week at Yoni’s place with a group of 6. First of all, let me say that the apartment is exactly as pictured. It is very nicely decorated and spacious. It’s also in a great location with a metro stop only about a minute away.
Check-in: Prior to our arrival I received a message with some instructions for check in. It seemed straightforward, go to the next door address between 3 and 7 on check in day. My brother was the first to arrive and he went to the location only to be met with a locked door and no code. The message said if there was an issue to contact Mr. Pierre and gave a phone number. So I called and he was very short with me, said there was a store next door and to go there. I had my brother on the other line asking questions, but I got a curt answer from Pierre to just go there and he couldn’t talk to me any more because he was driving. Luckily my brother figured it out but it was so confusing and Pierre was not super helpful.
Apartment: the apartment was very clean with plenty of room for all of us. There were 2 double beds and 2 pull out couches, one bathroom with 2 sinks, a kitchen, shared laundry (in a community space with 2 other apartments), it’s up one flight of stairs and there is a very very tiny elevator. It’s on a busy street and there is a lot of street noise at night. Not much of a problem unless it’s a hot day and you need to sleep with the window open which brings me to my next point, HEAT! We were there during a heat wave I guess but omg it was HOT in there. No AC, one fan for the entire place… we made a call to Pierre for more fans. He begrudgingly gave us one more, and said it would be another day until we could have another (we wanted at least one for each room). We did not use a single blanket our entire stay. I didn’t dare try to style my hair, I would’ve overheated for sure. It was beyond miserable. Leaving the windows open meant so much street noise, that kept me up all night. I was hot and tired the entire time although it did get a little better once the outside temp went down a bit.
The apartment was not well stocked. It says in the listing coffee and coffee maker. In actuality, there is instant coffee and a hot water kettle. No creamer and no sugar so you’ll need to buy your own. There were only 3 small extra toilet rolls, for an apartment housing six people for a week, this was not enough. We called Pierre, he said it’s not his responsibility, call Yoni. But I didn’t have Yoni’s number and messaging Yoni through the app had not been super effective up to that point, so we said screw it and bought our own. We wanted to do a load of wash, no soap or dryer sheets had been provided, so we also bought that for ourselves. The apartment was stocked with exactly one pillow per person. I sleep with at least two. It was quite uncomfortable for me. One towel per person too. We did ask for more of these and Pierre begrudgingly brought them. One tiny garbage can in the kitchen and another super tiny one on the bathroom. No instructions for where to take the trash out. So we lived with the trash. One set of keys, for 6 people proved challenging to say the least. In general, there was just not enough of anything and we hated to ask Pierre for anything.
Overall, the apartment serves its purpose but I wouldn’t stay again.