Jeremy is an excellent host, very supportive, considerate and available to help. He assisted us with all our queries, asked if we needed anything and did his best to provide us with what we needed, such as supplies, directions, etc. The apartment is located within 5-10 minutes’ walking distance of the main sights, such as Porte de Bourgogne, Porte Cailhau, Place de la Bourse, the Esplanade des Quinconces with the Girondins monument, Grand Theatre, Rue Sainte-Catherine, Grosse Cloche, San Michel Basilica, San Andre Cathedral with its Tour Pey-Berland tower and the Hotel de Ville. The apartment is located in the old part of Bordeaux.
We had rented a car and discovered that many of the streets leading to the apartment have bollards controlling entrance to the streets around the apartment’s general area, for which you would need a special card to enter. The only street we could reach the apartment from without requiring this card was from Rue de la Chapelle Saint-Jean via Cours d’Alsace-et-Lorraine. The car’s sat nav and our mobile Google Maps apps were not helpful as they kept pointing us to enter the streets blocked by these bollards, so it’s important to note this. The apartment does not come with a garage, but Jeremy assisted us with this as otherwise it would have been difficult to find alternate parking space in the nearby narrow streets.
The apartment itself is quite old but well looked after and has a nice layout and décor. There is a wide, central shaft around which the apartment’s kitchen, living room, corridor and one of the bedrooms have very high windows, so a lot of light and air enters the apartment from these windows. It has 3 bedrooms, 2 of which have ensuite bathrooms. There is another bathroom in the corridor next to the third bedroom. The Wi-Fi was good and there is a relatively large Tv, although we did not use it during our stay. The kitchen is reasonably sized, but we hardly used it except for coffees and teas. The apartment is located on the first floor, and one has to go up circa 20 steps to reach it as there is no lift. We were the first guests to use this Airbnb apartment and it needed some touch-ups, such as creaking doors, a couple of ceiling lights that didn’t work, additional linen, etc. Jeremy took note and assured that he would take care of these items straight away.