The apartment is beautiful and immaculately clean. It's in a great location about a 10 minute walk from a major train station while a grocery store and restaurants can be reached in under 5 minutes. Not only did I love the shower, I found the bed to be truly comfortable. The one thing I didn't like was the A/C unit on the first floor. It's actually a portable unit and it has a hose that exhausts hot air. In theory the hose should be directed outside but instead it blew hot air into the corner. When the hot air dispersed it made the entire room feel hot and negated most of the cool air.
Regarding my host, I can't say enough kind things about Carolyn. My initial contact had so much going on that most of my messages went unanswered. Communication is everything and I could have had a much more negative stay had Carolyn not stepped up in a major way.