We stayed here for 11 nights and had a mixed experience. As a headline, I wouldn't recommend this as a family friendly place for a long stay. It would be best for a group of adults/older kids or short stays.
Pros:
- The place is large with big hallways and good sized rooms.
- Aircon/heating in every room
- Nicely decorated with high ceilings and big windows
- Great location, right near to everything you'd want to see as well as great bars and restaurants
- Check in was super easy
- Communication with the host was fast
- Hosts provided extra towels and knives when we asked.
- Kitchen relatively well stocked with ingredients - oil, seasonings, vinegar
- A good amount of seating space around the table
Cons:
- There is a lift but the hosts recommend not to use it, meaning you need to climb about 50 stairs to get to the apartment. As a family with children - two prams, and multiple suitcases, this was far from ideal. It made arrival stressful and it meant that every time we wanted to leave the house we had to think about whether it was worth the effort taking the prams or not.
- The house isn't really family friendly if you have young children. There is quite a bit of clutter/decorations on shelves that don't provide any value and just become things that the kids could potentially play with. It would have been good to have a few empty shelves to unpack our own stuff in the living area.
- The host provided a travel crib but instead of a mattress it was rolled up blankets, which isn't suitable for babies under 12 months
- There may be black out blinds but there is a room attached to the front room which has a window in so the light and noise seeps in when others are awake, making it really hard for my baby to get to sleep and stay sleeping.
- There is a TV but it is in one of the bedrooms, so you can't do something like a movie night with the family. Again, if you're staying for a short time this won't matter but for long stays with children then you might want to account for this.
- Would have been good to have more instructions and information about where things are within the house and how to use appliances like the oven top
- Although the hosts were helpful with providing additional towels and knives when we asked, they weren't as helpful with other issues we had. We lost electricity for half a day and the washing machine broke with 4 days left in our stay so we had to go to the laundrette to wash our clothes. They weren't apologetic or very helpful with communication around these issues. Perhaps it was lost in translation but it didn't feel very welcoming in those times and created some stress during our holiday.
- Parking is really limited if you wanted to rent a car this would probably be a challenge