The apartment is in a great location, near to everything, and we felt very safe staying there. The actual building has been restored very well and the apartment itself has been beautifully renovated to bring it up to date, whilst keeping many of the charming features. However there are a few things about the layout that we found very strange. The bathroom is upstairs, with the bedrooms, and there's also a cupboard with a washer and dryer in upstairs next to the bathroom. The only toilet is downstairs in a cupboard area that has been created in the living room and there is no wash basin there. We didn't want to wash hands in the kitchen for hygiene reasons, so then had to go upstairs to the bathroom. We ate out but it could also be embarrassing (and unhygienic) to be eating at the table with someone using the toilet as it's in the living area! For some reason the toilet hasn't been painted, just left as bare plaster, which seemed odd as the rest of the apartment is so nicely decorated. We can't understand why the toilet wasn't put in the bathroom rather than 2 large basins, or at least swapped with the washer and dryer, which would be better placed downstairs by the kitchen.
There is no air conditioning, just a tower fan in each bedroom but no fan of any kind downstairs. The bedroom fans didn't really help much and it was extremely uncomfortable in the night as so hot, so not much sleep had! One night I left my bedroom window open due to the stifling heat so am now covered in mosquito bites! The other small moan is that there was no coffee left for us, despite being assured there would be some. At this price we really did feel that providing coffee and milk wasn't too much to ask.