Pro: amazing location
Cons: the lack of care taken towards making our stay comfortable, provision of basic amenities; and lack of care in response to the defects in the cleaning and maintenance of the apartment.
This is the type of apartment where you find half-opened packets of food from previous guests left in cupboards, presumably that one is meant to be appreciative of.
The place has basic furnishing but perfectly fine for a short stay.
Random lack of normal-sized spoons, no cork-screw etc were minor niggles; but the place didn’t seem particularly clean or well cared for.
We arrived and there was a strong bad smell coming from the bathroom, but decided to ignore it.
On the last morning we found a dead mouse rotting on the floor of the bathroom.
We felt this was quite indicative of the approach taken to how the apartment is looked after. The entire value of the apartment lies in its great location and sleeping capacity, and the hosts know they don’t need to do much more.
I messaged the host about the vermin and instead of doing me the courtesy of acknowledging and replying, we had a cleaner show up as we were about to leave who didn’t actually say anything, but in response to me pointing out the dead vermin shook her head and looked sad and then made a phone call and started shouting into it in a language I’m not familiar with. And that was the end of the trip.